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socat lets you proxy basically any 2 things
Diagram of a star, a heart, and the word “socat”. There are arrows going to and from socat to the heart and star.
the basic syntax:
socat THING1 THING2
socat supports:
- tcp sockets
- unix domain sockets
- pipes
- SSL sockets
- files
- processes
- UDP sockets
- … and MORE!
order doesn’t matter
socat THING1 THING2
is the same as
socat THING2 THING1
expose a unix domain socket on port 1337
socat TCP-LISTEN:1337
UNIX-CONNECT:/path
proxy from local HTTP port to remote server
socat TCP-LISTEN:1337
TCP:domain.com:80
-v
write all transferred data to stderr
happy little stick figure: useful for debugging!