[csw-users] /testing socat 1.5.0.0

[Bruno Bonfils]

socat 1.5.0.0 [1] is now available for testing [2]

Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent
data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device
(terminal or modem, etc.), socket (Unix, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), a
client for SOCKS4, proxy CONNECT, or SSL, etc.  It provides forking,
logging, and dumping, different modes for interprocess communication,
and many more options. It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay
(one-shot or daemon), as a daemon-based socksifier, as a shell interface
to Unix sockets, as an IP6 relay, for redirecting TCP-oriented programs
to a serial line, or to establish a relatively secure environment (su
and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts with network
connections.

Few examples :

% socat READLINE TCP4:mail.blastwave.org:25
% socat READLINE UNIX:/var/imap/socket/lmtp
% socat -vv TCP4-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr,fork TCP4:192.168.66.2:80
% socat -vv OPENSSL-LISTEN:443,cert=cert.pem,cafile=cacert.pem,\
cert=cert.key,reuseaddr,fork TCP4:192.168.34.65:80

[1] http://freshmeat.net/redir/socat/20872/url_homepage/socat
[2] http://www.blastwave.org/testing

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