port forwarding

In today's connected world, secure communication is more critical than ever. Tools like socat (SOcket CAT) play a vital role in network debugging and data exchange by proxying and capturing traffic. A particularly useful feature of socat is its ability to handle TLS termination, enabling secure transfers even across unsecured networks. In this article, we will explore how to use socat to proxy traffic between ports with TLS termination. A: socat is a command line utility that establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them. Because each stream can be a file, a pipe, a device (serial line etc.), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, etc.