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  1. Re:pop3 and Google by stoborrobots · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There?

    ... it requires SSL, which I don't know how to emulate with anything at the command line like telnet.

    socat is a telnet/netcat clone with SSL and readline baked in. I used to (in a former life) regularly hit imap servers with:

    bash$ socat READLINE SSL:mailserver:993

  2. Re:telnet mailhost.foo.com 25 by buchner.johannes · · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows?

    You won't get far with telnet unless you can do SSL in your head. I recommend socat.
    $ socat ssl:mail.foo.com:456 stdio

  3. Re:People stopped using Telnet? by annodomini · · Score: 2 · on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back

    You might want to look into using Netcat (or socat) for this purpose; more flexible if you want to pipe the output through something like grep or tee, and it won't mistakenly try to interpret certain characters according to the Telnet protocol.

  4. Re:who still uses telnet? by hydrofix · · Score: 3, Informative · on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back

    You might have better success with even a semi-valid HTTP/1.1 request such as

    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: www.google.com

    Also, using telnet here is redundant. You should consider using one of the several netcats available. Some even support nice features like SSL encryption, so you can make encrypted requests to to the https port (443).

  5. try to use SOCAT. by stanlyb · · Score: 1 · on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall?

    Another very good solution is to use this little multipurpose relay netcat++: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ They are saying that you could tunnel even a VPN traffic, with just one simple command.

  6. Re:ncat vs socat by buchner.johannes · · Score: 1 · on Nmap 5.00 Released, With Many Improvements

    socat is crazy. It supports SSL/TLS and chaining of protocols (e.g. for tunnelling) and you can use this addressing scheme as a library for your projects.

    checkout the Manpage and the examples

    Definitely powerful, but I found it a little picky on command-line parameters -- if you just want to do simple stuff it is not that easy to get into it.

  7. Re:ncat vs socat by buchner.johannes · · Score: 1 · on Nmap 5.00 Released, With Many Improvements

    socat is crazy. It supports SSL/TLS and chaining of protocols (e.g. for tunnelling) and you can use this addressing scheme as a library for your projects.

    checkout the Manpage and the examples

    Definitely powerful, but I found it a little picky on command-line parameters -- if you just want to do simple stuff it is not that easy to get into it.

  8. ncat vs socat by loxosceles · · Score: 1 · on Nmap 5.00 Released, With Many Improvements

    ncat is still fairly limited.

    socat (the 2.0 beta versions) is the best app to use for that stuff. It can use arbitrary chains of protocols, which is very useful when dealing with exotic and crazy situations like trying to tunnel stuff through multiple proxies.

    http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-version2.html

  9. Re:Show attached block devices by IpalindromeI · · Score: 1 · on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?

    If you like netcat, try out socat . Like netcat on steroids.

  10. Re:One awsome tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sysadmin Toolbox Top Ten

    Real men use socat.

  11. Re:I've always wanted to know if it is possible by jne_oioioi · · Score: 0 · on Boosting Socket Performance on Linux

    Socat for every type on tingling you wanna do on a socket http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

  12. Re:dsniff, ntop by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 1 · on What Network Sniffing Tools Do You Use?

    socat > netcat. If you need that fancy flexibility, and can handle more obtuse commandlines.