Re: Proposal for ncat improvement

On 12/11/18 5:01 PM, Ulrich Heuser wrote:
> Dear all,
> I found a relevant diff between the original netcat tool and ncat out of 
> nmap:
> 
> On sending out a http-request by netcat the connection is kept alive for 
> a long period, and this supports receiving a http-response from the 
> addressed counterpart.
> 
> With ncat the connection is closed after 1 sec., and the comm. 
> counterpart is not able to send a http-response to the ncat requestor 
> after that amount of time.
> 
> 
> It would be useful to extend the options of ncat by a keep-alive 
> time-val. and to keep the connection open for such given period to allow 

While not exactly the same, would option --no-shutdown help in your 
situation?

Cheers,
nnposter
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