Excellent article! I’ve tried to grok socat a few times but gave up quickly upon being faced with its screenfuls of dense help text. This post sheds light on

Excellent article! I’ve tried to grok socat a few times but gave up quickly upon being faced with its screenfuls of dense help text. This post sheds light on the core concepts behind the tool in a way that the man page and help text just didn’t do for me. Now that I ‘get’ it, I’m actually excited to find an opportunity to use socat! I can think of so many interesting use cases.