Using socat to make a secure tcp connection to an irc server

Recently, I got into irc, so I installed [sic](https://tools.suckless.org/sic/) and started - obviously - chatting. But, it turns out that sic doesn't provide any security features like SSL or TCP so I in man sic, they told to use socat to establish a secure TCP connection so I installed it and read the documentary. In the example section, I found this:

socat TCP-LISTEN:www TCP:www.domain.org:www

So I just ran

socat tcp-listen:6667,fork tcp:irc.freenode.net:6697

and tried to connect with it using sic -h 127.0.1 -p 6667 which puked out:

sic: remote host closed connection

with socat not complaining. --- I tried it again with the option -d -d for socat being more verbose: 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N accepting connection from AF=2 127.0.0.1:38664 on AF=2 127.0.0.1:6667 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N forked off child process 1897 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N listening on AF=2 0.0.0.0:6667 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N opening connection to AF=2 185.30.166.37:6697 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N successfully connected from local address AF=2 192.168.178.28:42822 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N starting data transfer loop with FDs [6,6] and [5,5] 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat W read(5, 0x558eefca3710, 8192): Connection reset by peer 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 2 to socket 1 is in error 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 2 (fd 5) is at EOF 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 1 (fd 6) is at EOF 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N socket 2 (fd 5) is at EOF 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N exiting with status 0 2019/01/02 00:38:38 socat N childdied(): handling signal 17