mitmproxy/README.rst
Aldo Cortesi 982508d30f All new documentation
This patch does a lot.

- Ditch sphinx in favor of hugo. This gives us complete control of the layout
and presentation of our docs. Henceforth, docs will be hosted on our website
rather than ReadTheDocs.
- Create a simple, clean doc layout and theme.
- Remove large parts of the documentaion. I've ditched anything that was a)
woefully out of date, b) too detailed, or c) too hard to maintain in the long
term.
- Huge updates to the docs themselves: completely rewrite addons documentation,
add docs for core concepts like commands and options, and revise and tweak a
lot of the existing docs.

With this patch, we're also changing the way we publish and maintain the docs.
From now on, we don't publish docs for every release. Instead, the website will
contain ONE set of docs for each major release. The online docs will be updated
if needed as minor releases are made. Docs are free to improve during minor
releases, but anything that changes behaviour sufficiently to require a doc
change warrants a new major release. This also leaves us free to progressively
update and improve docs out of step with our release cadence.

With this new scheme, I feel CI over the docs is less important. I've removed
it for now, but won't object if someone wants to add it back in.
2018-02-22 18:07:58 +13:00

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mitmproxy
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|travis| |appveyor| |coverage| |latest_release| |python_versions|
This repository contains the **mitmproxy** and **pathod** projects.
``mitmproxy`` is an interactive, SSL-capable intercepting proxy with a console
interface.
``mitmdump`` is the command-line version of mitmproxy. Think tcpdump for HTTP.
``mitmweb`` is a web-based interface for mitmproxy.
``pathoc`` and ``pathod`` are perverse HTTP client and server applications
designed to let you craft almost any conceivable HTTP request, including ones
that creatively violate the standards.
Documentation & Help
--------------------
General information, tutorials, and precompiled binaries can be found on the mitmproxy
and pathod websites.
|mitmproxy_site|
The latest documentation for mitmproxy is also available on ReadTheDocs.
|mitmproxy_docs|
Join our discussion forum on Discourse to ask questions, help
each other solve problems, and come up with new ideas for the project.
|mitmproxy_discourse|
Join our developer chat on Slack if you would like to contribute to mitmproxy itself.
|slack|
Installation
------------
The installation instructions are `here <http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/install.html>`__.
If you want to contribute changes, keep on reading.
Contributing
------------
As an open source project, mitmproxy welcomes contributions of all forms. If you would like to bring the project forward,
please consider contributing in the following areas:
- **Maintenance:** We are *incredibly* thankful for individuals who are stepping up and helping with maintenance. This includes (but is not limited to) triaging issues, reviewing pull requests and picking up stale ones, helping out other users in our forums_, creating minimal, complete and verifiable examples or test cases for existing bug reports, updating documentation, or fixing minor bugs that have recently been reported.
- **Code Contributions:** We actively mark issues that we consider are `good first contributions`_. If you intend to work on a larger contribution to the project, please come talk to us first.
Development Setup
-----------------
To get started hacking on mitmproxy, please follow the `advanced installation`_ steps to install mitmproxy from source, but stop right before running ``pip3 install mitmproxy``. Instead, do the following:
.. code-block:: bash
git clone https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy.git
cd mitmproxy
./dev.sh # "powershell .\dev.ps1" on Windows
The *dev* script will create a `virtualenv`_ environment in a directory called "venv"
and install all mandatory and optional dependencies into it. The primary
mitmproxy components - mitmproxy and pathod - are installed as
"editable", so any changes to the source in the repository will be reflected
live in the virtualenv.
The main executables for the project - ``mitmdump``, ``mitmproxy``,
``mitmweb``, ``pathod``, and ``pathoc`` - are all created within the
virtualenv. After activating the virtualenv, they will be on your $PATH, and
you can run them like any other command:
.. code-block:: bash
. venv/bin/activate # "venv\Scripts\activate" on Windows
mitmdump --version
Testing
-------
If you've followed the procedure above, you already have all the development
requirements installed, and you can run the full test suite (including tests for code style and documentation) with tox_:
.. code-block:: bash
tox
For speedier testing, we recommend you run `pytest`_ directly on individual test files or folders:
.. code-block:: bash
cd test/mitmproxy/addons
pytest --cov mitmproxy.addons.anticache --looponfail test_anticache.py
As pytest does not check the code style, you probably want to run ``tox -e lint`` before committing your changes.
Please ensure that all patches are accompanied by matching changes in the test
suite. The project tries to maintain 100% test coverage and enforces this strictly for some parts of the codebase.
Documentation
-------------
The following tools are required to build the mitmproxy docs:
- Hugo_
- modd_
- yarn_
.. code-block:: bash
cd docs
yarn
modd
Code Style
----------
Keeping to a consistent code style throughout the project makes it easier to
contribute and collaborate. Please stick to the guidelines in
`PEP8`_ and the `Google Style Guide`_ unless there's a very
good reason not to.
This is automatically enforced on every PR. If we detect a linting error, the
PR checks will fail and block merging. You can run our lint checks yourself
with the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
tox -e lint
.. |mitmproxy_site| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/api/https%3A%2F%2F-mitmproxy.org-blue.svg
:target: https://mitmproxy.org/
:alt: mitmproxy.org
.. |mitmproxy_docs| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/api/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
:target: http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/
:alt: mitmproxy documentation
.. |mitmproxy_discourse| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/api/https%3A%2F%2F-discourse.mitmproxy.org-orange.svg
:target: https://discourse.mitmproxy.org
:alt: Discourse: mitmproxy
.. |slack| image:: http://slack.mitmproxy.org/badge.svg
:target: http://slack.mitmproxy.org/
:alt: Slack Developer Chat
.. |travis| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/travis/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/master.svg?label=travis%20ci
:target: https://travis-ci.org/mitmproxy/mitmproxy
:alt: Travis Build Status
.. |appveyor| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/appveyor/ci/mhils/mitmproxy/master.svg?label=appveyor%20ci
:target: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mhils/mitmproxy
:alt: Appveyor Build Status
.. |coverage| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/codecov/c/github/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/master.svg?label=codecov
:target: https://codecov.io/gh/mitmproxy/mitmproxy
:alt: Coverage Status
.. |latest_release| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/pypi/v/mitmproxy.svg
:target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mitmproxy
:alt: Latest Version
.. |python_versions| image:: https://shields.mitmproxy.org/pypi/pyversions/mitmproxy.svg
:target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mitmproxy
:alt: Supported Python versions
.. _`advanced installation`: http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/install.html#advanced-installation
.. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/
.. _`pytest`: http://pytest.org/
.. _tox: https://tox.readthedocs.io/
.. _Hugo: https://gohugo.io/
.. _modd: https://github.com/cortesi/modd
.. _yarn: https://yarnpkg.com/en/
.. _PEP8: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008
.. _`Google Style Guide`: https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html
.. _forums: https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/
.. _`good first contributions`: https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22