= netcat =
A featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.

[[https://netcat.sourceforge.net]]

== Examples ==

=== Send HTTP request ===
The request was fetched with tcpdump.

{{{#!highlight bash
cat request1.txt | nc 192.168.1.1 8080
}}}


=== Send SMTP request ===
The request was fetched with tcpdump.
{{{
ehlo example.com
mail from: userx@example.com
rcpt to: usery@example.net
quit
}}}

{{{#!highlight bash
cat requestsmtp1.txt | nc 192.168.1.1 25
}}}

=== Send hex string ===
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/82561/convert-a-hex-string-to-binary-and-send-with-netcat

 * echo '0006303030304e43' | xxd -r -p | nc -l localhost 8181