---
name: "pkspxyc"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pkspxyc"
version: "0.5-10"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pkspxyc"
---

# pkspxyc(1)

The PKS proxy client

## 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)](/pkspxy/8.md), **pks-intro**(8), [**dbopen**(3)](/dbopen/3.md)

## AUTHOR

Thomas Roessler \<roessler@guug.de\>