Socat is a commandline network tool akin to [[netcat]]. It supports SSL, IPv6 and several more protocols. It can come in handy when attempting to sniff traffic that has to speak SSL because setting up a cleartext to SSL proxy is relatively straightforward. =TCP to STDIN=To create a classic TCP listening daemon, similar to <code>netcat !--l</code>, use The rest of this page uses a variation of template from the following commandUniluug project; please see https://uniluug.<pre>$ socat TCP-LISTENorg/wiki/Template:8080 stdout</pre> =Cleartext to SSL Tunnel for DyKnow=To create a plaintext to SSL proxy that [[DyKnow]] can connect Socat if you wish to, use a variant of the following commandedit it.<pre>$ socat tcp4-listen:1337,fork openssl:dyknow.lt.vt.edu:443,cafile=ThawtePremiumServerCA.pem</pre-> [[Category{{raw:Commandline *nix software]][[Categoryu:Howtos]]Socat}}
