NAME
pkspxyc - The PKS proxy client
SYNOPSIS
pkspxyc [-d] [-f] [-s server] [-p port] [-b database] key-id ...
DESCRIPTION
pkspxyc is the “smart” client to be used with the PKS proxy server.
More generally, it can be used as a HKP client with almost any PGP key
server.
The client will send a simple HTTP request to a server determined
through default settings and command line options. This request
contains a key-id and the time stamp of the last query for the same
key-id. When the server has updated its cache file for the key-id
since that point of time, it will return the key data in ascii armor,
and tagged as text/html. When there was no update, the server will
return an empty response, with an HTTP return code of 204.
Server responses are written to standard output.
OPTIONS
-d Enable debug mode.
-f Don’t pass the time stamp of the last look-up of a certain key-
id to the server.
-s server
Tells pkspxyc which key server to use. The default is
“localhost”.
-p port
Use the given port. The default is port 11372. (Note that key
servers usually listen to port 11371.)
-b database
Use the given database file to record time stamps. The default
is the file .pkspxyc in the user’s home directory.
RETURN VALUE
pkspxyc will return the exit value 0 when at least one of the queries
performed was successful. An exit value different from 0 indicates
that no key data could be obtained.
SEE ALSO
pkspxy(8), pks-intro(8), dbopen(3)
AUTHOR
Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>