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by drinchev
4916 days ago
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faucet 80 --in cat This is useful for creating a connection for receiving the input of what you get... e.g. running faucet 80 --in cat and later curl http://127.0.0.1:80 will deliver to you console : GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8n zlib/1.2.5 libidn/1.19
Host: 127.0.0.1:900
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Faucet is part of "netpipes", which is available for most Unixoid operating systems. I guess it was inspiration to build "netcat". But netcat was a absolute terrible hack of a program, so "socat" (socket-cat?) was born.
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
In case you need the functionality of bash's /dev/tcp [1] and you are pondering to install netcat or netpipes, do yourself a favor and just go for socat, it's insanely more powerful, read the manpage, read the examples!
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html#EXAMPLES
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[1] but debian and ubuntu have decided to compile without it... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/215034