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PTT WebSocket CLI Command
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Install https://github.com/vi/websocat to setup a local proxy between wss://ws.ptt.cc/bbs and 127.0.0.1:1337:

$ websocat --oneshot --binary --origin=https://term.ptt.cc tcp-l:127.0.0.1:1337 wss://ws.ptt.cc/bbs

Now use telnet localhost 1337 to connect to PTT. Sadly it will show things with a specialized Big5 + UAO (Unicode 補完計畫), which is not compatible with most of the terminals.

To solve this, either

  1. Enter username with comma like username,, then PTT will show characters in UTF8 after the login screen.
  2. Use https://github.com/buganini/bug5 wrapper to transcode between Big5 and UTF8, such as:
$ (websocat --oneshot --binary --origin=https://term.ptt.cc tcp-l:127.0.0.1:1337 wss://ws.ptt.cc/bbs &) && ./bug5 -up telnet localhost 1337
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