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[](https://travis-ci.org/mitmproxy/mitmproxy) [](https://coveralls.io/r/mitmproxy/mitmproxy)
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__mitmproxy__ is an interactive, SSL-capable man-in-the-middle proxy for HTTP
with a console interface.
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__mitmdump__ is the command-line version of mitmproxy. Think tcpdump for HTTP.
__libmproxy__ is the library that mitmproxy and mitmdump are built on.
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Documentation, tutorials and distribution packages can be found on the
mitmproxy.org website:
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[mitmproxy.org ](http://mitmproxy.org ).
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Features
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- Intercept HTTP requests and responses and modify them on the fly.
- Save complete HTTP conversations for later replay and analysis.
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- Replay the client-side of an HTTP conversations.
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- Replay HTTP responses of a previously recorded server.
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- Reverse proxy mode to forward traffic to a specified server.
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- Transparent proxy mode on OSX and Linux.
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- Make scripted changes to HTTP traffic using Python.
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- SSL certificates for interception are generated on the fly.
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- And much, much more.
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Installation
------------
The recommended way to install mitmproxy is running < code > pip install mitmproxy< / code > .
For convenience, we provide binary packages on [mitmproxy.org ](http://mitmproxy.org/ ).
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Requirements
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------------
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* [Python ](http://www.python.org ) 2.7.x.
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* [netlib ](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/netlib ), version matching mitmproxy.
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* Third-party packages listed in [setup.py ](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/setup.py )
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Optional packages for extended content decoding:
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* [PyAMF ](http://www.pyamf.org/ ) version 0.6.1 or newer.
* [protobuf ](https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ ) version 2.5.0 or newer.
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* [cssutils ](http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ ) version 1.0 or newer.
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For convenience, all optional dependencies can be installed with
`pip install mitmproxy[contenviews]`
__mitmproxy__ is tested and developed on OSX, Linux and OpenBSD. On Windows,
only mitmdump is supported, which does not have a graphical user interface.
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Hacking
-------
The following components are needed if you plan to hack on mitmproxy:
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* The test suite requires the `dev` extra requirements listed in [setup.py ](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/setup.py ) and [pathod ](http://pathod.net ), version matching mitmproxy.
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* Rendering the documentation requires [countershape ](http://github.com/cortesi/countershape ).
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For convenience, the following procedure is recommended to set up your environment:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy.git
$ cd mitmproxy
$ pip install --src . -r requirements.txt
```
This installs the latest GitHub versions of mitmproxy, netlib and pathod into `mitmproxy/` . All other development dependencies save countershape are installed into their usual locations.
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Please ensure that all patches are accompanied by matching changes in the test
suite. The project maintains 100% test coverage.
