Simple Port Forwarder
Written by Sean R. Owens (sean at guild dot net). Share and enjoy. http://darksleep.com/player
This was a very quick hack for a friend, to help them spy on what
was going on between a web browser and a web server. There are
two fairly simple programs here.
JustListen
JustListen is a simple program that more or less echoes anything
sent to it back to the sender.
The JustListen class opens a server socket and listens on it.
When a new connection is accepted, the JustListen class creates a
JustListenHandler instance for that connection and then goes back
to listening.
JustListenHandler takes a socket connection and simply reads data
from it, then writes that data back to the socket as well as
printing it to System.err.
Server
The real portforwarder is contained in two classes, Server and
Handler. It takes three command line args, which are; the port it
should listen on; and address and port of the server it should
forward to.
The Server is fairly straightforward. It just opens a server
socket and then listens forever on that socket. Every time a new
connection is accepted, Server first opens a new socket to the
destination. Then Server creates two instances of Handler, which
run independently. One instance of Handler takes care of reading
data from the incoming socket and writing it to the destination
socket, the other instance of Handelr takes care of reading data
from the destination socket and writing it to the incoming socket.
Handler simply takes two sockets in the constructor, and reads
data from the first socket, and then writes it to the second
socket. Thats it. Oh yeah, it also prints out what ever it is
reading to System.err.
Last modified: Wed May 27 19:16:34 EDT 2009