How to connect to services ========================== .. note:: While service challenges are often connected to with netcat or PuTTY, solving them will sometimes require using a scripting language like Python. CTF players often use Python alongside `pwntools `_. You can run `pwntools `_ right in your browser by using `repl.it `_. Using netcat ------------ .. image:: images/netcat.gif :width: 600 ``netcat`` is a networking utility found on macOS and linux operating systems and allows for easy connections to CTF challenges. Service challenges will commonly give you an address and a port to connect to. The syntax for connecting to a service challenge with netcat is ``nc ``. Using ConEmu ------------ Windows users can connect to service challenges using ConEmu, which can be downloaded `here `_. Connecting to service challenges with ConEmu is done by running ``nc ``.