snetcat is a clone of a famous netcat utility developed by the UNIX hacker we know as Hobbit, with SSL and easier port forwarding support. A tiny Matrix SSL lib, with footprint about 50K, was used to implement encryption.

Download

Sources, statically linked binaries for Linux and FreeBSD 5, precompiled Windows executable you can get from Sourceforge project page

Options overview

usage: snetcat [OPTIONS] [<host> <port>]
-u              use UDP instead of TCP
-g              bind to INADDR_ANY
-o file         hexdump passed traffic to a file
-d		Act as listening server, forking childs
-s certif	Wrap the connection into SSL, using given certificate file
-l localport    listen on localport
-e prog         redirect stdin/stdout to program

Usage examples

Fetch web page

% echo -e "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\n\n" | snetcat www.yahoo.com 80

Fetch web page via HTTPS

% echo -e "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\n\n" | snetcat -s "" www.yahoo.com 80

Run port forwarder

% snetcat -l local_port remote_host remote_port

Turn web server on your machine to be HTTPS web server

% snetcat -l 443 -s CERTIFICATE.PEM -d 127.0.0.1 80

Mail client (sh script)

sendmail

Simple web server (sh script)

httpd

Author

© Sergey Lyubka <valenok at gmail dot com>

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