Good tool for testing socket connections?

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Name picture Name · Feb 5, 2009 · Viewed 126.9k times · Source

I'm writing a tcp/ip client and I would need a "test server" to be able to test easily. It should listen on a configurable port, show me when a client connects and what the client sent, allow me to manually enter text to send to the client. It should work on Windows.

Normally I would have use the simple but powerfull nc.exe (alias "Netcat" available as well on Unix as on Windows) but the antivirus detects it as an "hacker tool" so that my system administrator doesn't want me to use it at work.

Does anyone use another tool to test socket connections and is happy with it?

Answer

patros picture patros · Feb 5, 2009

Hercules is fantastic. It's a fully functioning tcp/udp client/server, amazing for debugging sockets. More details on the web site.

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