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socat, SOcket CAT, is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT...

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Linux
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  1.  Portable
  2.  Command line interface
  3.  Data transfer
  4.  Port Forwarding

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  • Developed by

    dest-unreach.org

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

  • Alternatives

    5 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is socat?

socat, SOcket CAT, is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these. These modes include generation of "listening" sockets, named pipes, and pseudo terminals.

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