manx is a wscat clone. It's a simple interface to websocket servers.

One of its features is that it saves the prompt, so that you can easily see the commands you're typing even if you are receiving a flood of data.

For those learning Rust and async, manx shows how async websockets can interface with sync stdin and stdout loops.

Windows should be supported (although currently untested, please sent in bug reports!)

Thanks especially to smol, async-tungstenite, tungstenite, and linefeed, which provided the building blocks for this app.

Make sure you have Rust, then

cargo install manx

To connect to a ws server:

manx ws://echo.websocket.org

Options:

manx 0.4.0
Walther Chen <walther.chen@gmail.com>
Talk to websockets from cli

USAGE:
    manx [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <URL>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help              Prints help information
        --show-ping-pong    Print when ping or pong received.
    -V, --version           Prints version information

OPTIONS:
        --cert <cert_path>    Specify a client SSL Certificate

ARGS:
    <URL>

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• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

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