Net Client

About

This page is about clients that send packet to a socket.

What can you do?

Talk to server

You can talk directly to a server that implements a protocol where the packet body is made of text such as:

• SMTP.
• HTTP

Transfer data

This client can also act as a net server, therefore you can:

• start a client
• start a server
• and transfer any kind of data

List

• Telnet (Protocol, Client)

telnet localhost 25

• Network - netcat (nc, ncat)

nc localhost 25

• openssl client

openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 -cipher EXP-RC4-MD5

openssl s_client \
  -connect datacadamia.com:443 \
  -servername datacadamia.com # sni settings