sclient

ssl unwrapper for Windows, Mac, and Linux

a poor man's alternative to openssl s_client, stunnel, socat for the simple use case of connecting a client application that doesn't support tls+sni through a secure connection, https proxy, or sni multiplexer (think telnet, netcat, ssh, openvpn, etc).

Usage

$ sclient [flags] <remote> <local>

$ sclient example.com:443 localhost:3000

Flags

• -k, --insecure ignore invalid tls certificates
• --servername <string> spoof SNI (to disable use IP as <remote> and do not use this option)

Arguments

• <remote> the servername and port of the tls-enabled server (default port is 443)
• <local> the local address and port to bind to (default bind address is 127.0.0.1 or ::1)
  • - may be used to read from stdin (like netcat)
  • may be omitted when piping (see pipe example below)

Examples

SSH

$ ssh -o ProxyCommand="sclient %h" jon.telebit.io

This is useful to be able to connect to SSH even from behind a corporate packet-inspection firewall. It can also be used to multiplex and relay multiple ssh connections through a single host.

Telnet

$ sclient example.com:443 localhost:3000
> [listening] example.com:443 <= localhost:3000

$ telnet localhost 3000

stdin/stdout

$ sclient whatever.com -
> (connected to whatever.com:443 and reading from stdin)

> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: whatever.com
> Connection: close
>  

pipe

$ printf "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: telebit.cloud\r\n\r\n" | sclient telebit.cloud

Downloads (standalone) v1.2

• Windows 7/8/10 Download | (x86)
• macOS / OS X / Darwin Download
• Linux Ubuntu/Arch/etc Download | (386)
• Raspberry Pi Download | (Pi Zero)
• Source Code Go (golang) | node.js

Source Code

sclient is maintained simultaneously in go and node.js

• Go
  • git
  • zip


• node.js
  • git
  • zip
  • npm install -g sclient