LAPCAT(1)

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👑 LAPCAT(1) — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is lapcat from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

lapcat — Location Aware Proxy Chooser And Tunneler

like. the acronym ate. periodt. 🌈

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lapcat [options] <host> <port>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so lapcat is basically a netcat-like tool — she opens up a TCP/IP connection to a particular host, on a particular port. simple as that, no cap. 🎀

but here's the tea: how the connection gets established depends on a whole set of rules, and those rules can vary depending on:

  • the host you're hitting up
  • your active network connection
  • and availability 👀

so it's not just one vibe, it's a whole system of vibes. iykyk. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -v — turn on debug output. she's talkative now 🗣️
  • -v -v — turn on even more debug output. double the -v, double the yapping 🔥

🌸 MODES 🌸

okay so lapcat operates in one of 4 different modes, and bestie, she contains multitudes:

  1. netcat mode
  2. HTTP Proxy mode
  3. dedicated mode
  4. one-off mode

each one is described below 👇

⭐ netcat mode ⭐

in netcat mode, lapcat will connect to the remote host and relay data back and forth to the standard input and output. it's giving telnet or netcat tools energy, fr fr. 🫶

🙈 note: the other three modes say they're "described below" but this manual only describes netcat mode. yes we noticed. we're not gonna pretend otherwise. it's giving unfinished. 😭

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Written by Bjarni R. Einarsson <http://bre.klaki.net/> for The Beanstalks Project ehf. and PageKite <https://pagekite.net/>.

king behavior, honestly 👑

🍓 CONFIGURATION 🍓

FIXME: Write this!

(no like. that's literally what it says. the configuration section is a placeholder and we are respecting her journey 💀)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too bestie, they're in the family 🦋

Copyright © 2011 Bjarni R. Einarsson and The Beanstalks Project ehf.

License: AGPLv3+, GNU Affero GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

⚠️ say it with me: NO WARRANTY. she is free and she is yours but she is also not liable, okay? respect the license and respect the girlies who wrote her. 💖

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🌸 this manual is from 2011-07-31 — a little vintage moment, we love a classic — and it lives in the LAPCAT(1) page of the General Commands Manual. stan. 👑✨

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