title: Good tool for testing socket connections?
body: <p>I'm writing a tcp/ip client and I would need a "test server" to be able to test easily. It should listen on a configurable port, show me when a client connects and what the client sent, allow me to manually enter text to send to the client.
  It should work on Windows.</p>
  
  <p>Normally I would have use the simple but powerfull <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat" rel="noreferrer">nc.exe (alias "Netcat" available as well on Unix as on Windows)</a> but the antivirus detects it as an "hacker tool" so that my system administrator doesn't want me to use it at work.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone use another tool to test socket connections and is happy with it?</p>