SSLCat is a Unix tool that offers data transmission across SSL-enabled network connections. The program facilitates easy data transfer with a simple, user-friendly interface.
If you're looking for a straightforward Unix utility to transmit data securely over an SSL-enabled network connection, you should definitely take a look at SSLCat. This easy-to-use software allows you to provide a hostname (and an optional port number, with 443 as the default) and establish an SSLv2 connection. Once the connection is secure, SSLCat can send data from your stdin and deliver incoming data to your stdout.
SSL Cat comes with several useful options to customize your use of the program. You can enable debugging output with the -B flag, choose to drop the connection upon EOF from STDIN with -d, choose SSLv3 as the protocol with -3, or choose TLSv1 with -T. These options can help you tailor your experience with SSLCat to your exact needs.
Want to see SSLCat in action? Here are some examples of usage. If you want to use standard Unix commands to process the result of a simple HTTP request, you can pipe the echo command output through SSLCat and grep the result with the following code:
echo 'HEAD / HTTP/1.0rnrn' | sslcat hotmail.com | grep ^Server
If you're trying to access a site that doesn't like SSLv2 connections, like www.sun.com, you can use the -3 flag to force the use of SSLv3:
echo 'HEAD / HTTP/1.0rnrn' | sslcat -3 sun.com | grep ^Server.
All in all, SSLCat is a reliable and user-friendly tool for securely transmitting data over an SSL-enabled network connection - definitely worth checking out!
SSL Cat comes with several useful options to customize your use of the program. You can enable debugging output with the -B flag, choose to drop the connection upon EOF from STDIN with -d, choose SSLv3 as the protocol with -3, or choose TLSv1 with -T. These options can help you tailor your experience with SSLCat to your exact needs.
Want to see SSLCat in action? Here are some examples of usage. If you want to use standard Unix commands to process the result of a simple HTTP request, you can pipe the echo command output through SSLCat and grep the result with the following code:
echo 'HEAD / HTTP/1.0rnrn' | sslcat hotmail.com | grep ^Server
If you're trying to access a site that doesn't like SSLv2 connections, like www.sun.com, you can use the -3 flag to force the use of SSLv3:
echo 'HEAD / HTTP/1.0rnrn' | sslcat -3 sun.com | grep ^Server.
All in all, SSLCat is a reliable and user-friendly tool for securely transmitting data over an SSL-enabled network connection - definitely worth checking out!
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