KAMIPROXY(1)

okay so you opened KAMIPROXY(1), General Commands Manual, and honestly that was the correct choice, bestie 💅

💖 NAME 💖

kamiproxy — 9p over tls proxy, and that's the whole vibe, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

run it like this, bestie:

kamiproxy [-dv] -c host[:port] -l [host:]port -C cert [-K key]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

kamiproxy is a proxy for 9p over tls. It listens on a local port for plaintext 9p connections and forwards them to a real server using a TLS-encrypted tunnel and a client certificate. it's giving encrypted little middleman energy ✨

okay, the options are literally as follows:

• -C cert — path to the client certificate to use.
• -c host[:port] — connect to the remote server identified by the given host name on the specified port, with 1337 as the default port.
• -d — do not daemonize. If you pass this, kamiproxy will run in the foreground and log to standard error, which is lowkey useful.
• -K key — path to the key of the client certificate. If you don't provide it, it's assumed to be the same as the -C flag.
• -l [host:]port — listen on the specified address. The host by default is localhost.
• -v — produce more verbose output, periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

9p(7) and kamid(8) — go look, iykyk 👀

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

the kamiproxy program was written by Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> — iconic credit, honestly 🫶

💀 CAVEATS 💀

heads up, bestie: kamiproxy opens one TLS-encrypted connection for each incoming connection. A better approach would be to multiplex the traffic to the remote server, akin to what the plan9 kernel does by default. that's the caveat, fr fr 💀

that's the whole KAMIPROXY(1) page, bestie — this one's from Debian, dated February 9, 2022. mwah 💋