Such things do exist. If your needs are minimal, telnet *might* be enough. You can "telnet localhost 80" and see what it does.
Netcat, on the other hand, is exactly what you are looking for, and will probably do a wonderful job. On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 10:41:06PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > Is there any standard utility for opening a connection to a > TCP/IP port and then interactively sending data and seeing > responses? For example, I'd like to be able to open a connection > to port 80 on some machine, type "GET / HTTP/1.0" and then see > the response. > > I'm experimenting with some protocols, and this sort of thing > would be helpful. I think I could probably write something like > this, but I was wondering if it already exists. > > Thanks, > Kris > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
