RE: netcat connections behind proxys

[Meidinger Chris <chris.meidinger () badenit de>]

This is a bit old, jsut noticed it - 

Well, the whole idea of netcat is that it just handshakes and leaves an open
connection.

The whole idea of a proxy is that you handshake with it and send it a
request, and it handshakes with the remote server and sends that server a
request. So you could handshake with the server and give it valid requests
for whatever service it proxies, and it would give you the answers that it
is programmed to give for those requests.

So basically, no, the only way would be to write a netcat proxy.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Gedi [mailto:gedi () ntlworld com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 11:47 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: netcat connections behind proxys


How do you initiate a connection with netcat when behind a proxy server?

Is there a way of doing this or will the proxy just drop the request.

Thanks

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