tool already capable of doing it is socat. ex: socat -v -x - tcp:google.com:80 add >/dev/null if you want do discard plain text output. also works over ssl: $ s

tool already capable of doing it is socat. ex: socat -v -x - tcp:google.com:80 add >/dev/null if you want do discard plain text output. also works over ssl: $ socat -v -x - openssl:google.com:443,verify=0