Issues

• --listen accepts any string as port number

  websockets/wscat#168 · Filter by author unixwork opened on Mar 7, 2026

• EADDRINUSE on free port with wscat --listen

  websockets/wscat#165 · Filter by author pixel-prady opened on Aug 12, 2025

• wscat is not support binary data send to the server

  websockets/wscat#158 · Filter by author Zjmainstay opened on Dec 2, 2024

• wscat breaks when IP of server changes

  websockets/wscat#146 · Filter by author Michael65589 opened on Mar 1, 2023
  3

• Support for binary response / hex output:

  websockets/wscat#145 · Filter by author franky436 opened on Jan 1, 2023
  1

• Not seeing response data

  websockets/wscat#142 · Filter by author paul-uz opened on Aug 2, 2022
  2

• wscat returns nothing when launced from a cron @reboot

  websockets/wscat#141 · Filter by author JulienDevillers opened on Jul 20, 2022
  4

• Send Initial message into interactive shell.

  websockets/wscat#138 · Filter by author davjhan opened on Feb 20, 2022
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• How to send null in wscat

  websockets/wscat#135 · Filter by author s-spindler opened on Oct 5, 2021

• Backgrounding wscat

  websockets/wscat#130 · Filter by author pieterhouwen opened on Mar 25, 2021
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• Request to support SignalR implementation.

  websockets/wscat#129 · Filter by author shrinidhi111 opened on Sep 9, 2020

• History persistance

  websockets/wscat#128 · Filter by author samber opened on Sep 9, 2020
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• error: WebSocket was closed before the connection was established

  websockets/wscat#126 · Filter by author dnlmrls opened on Aug 18, 2020
  2

• send data to a particular destination

  websockets/wscat#121 · Filter by author kalpitjain0407 opened on May 17, 2020

• Error while running with nohup

  websockets/wscat#118 · Filter by author dm222 opened on Feb 29, 2020
  3

• Verbose/Logging Option

  websockets/wscat#116 · Filter by author alvintownsend opened on Jan 30, 2020

• Reload terminal screen every time new data comes in

  websockets/wscat#102 · Filter by author rabbishuki opened on Aug 14, 2019

• Disabling SNI

  websockets/wscat#100 · Filter by author doodi-v1 opened on Aug 6, 2019

• Implement slash commands in listen mode

  websockets/wscat#87 · Filter by author Lemmmy opened on Feb 16, 2019
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• json pretty print [feature request]

  websockets/wscat#73 · Filter by author damianobarbati opened on Jun 6, 2018
  3

• wish to support gzip

  websockets/wscat#69 · Filter by author tcpadmin opened on Apr 24, 2018

• any chance for win x64 binary ?

  websockets/wscat#68 · Filter by author elig0n opened on Mar 21, 2018
  4

• keep alive

  websockets/wscat#50 · Filter by author randysecrist opened on Jul 20, 2017
  4

• Wait for a connection to process the input

  websockets/wscat#4 · Filter by author sim6 opened on May 11, 2015