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Comment by laumars | Hacker News Reader

> While you can use netcat for convenience (because it comes preinstalled on most systems)...

I love netcat but for those without you can do this from within Bash:

    echo "example" > /dev/tcp/seashells.io/1337

While this is neat, it doesn't work for this usecase, because it doesn't print the reply with the seashell.io url.

Ahhh yes. That would be a 'slight' problem. Thank you for the correction.

I cant test right now, but couldn't you do it with a prefab fd?

  exec 3<>/dev/tcp/seashells.io/1337
  cat <&3
  echo "example" >3

Or something like that?

A widely preinstalled cli TLS netcat workalike also exists: openssl s_client