mitmproxy/README.mkd

mitmproxy is an SSL-capable, intercepting HTTP proxy. It provides a console interface that allows traffic flows to be inspected and edited on the fly.

mitmdump is the command-line version of mitmproxy, with the same functionality but without the frills. Think tcpdump for HTTP.

Both tools are fully documentented in the commandline --help flag, and, in the case of mitmproxy, a built-in help page accessible through the ? keyboard shortcut.

Capabilities

• Intercept HTTP requests and responses and modify them on the fly.
• Save complete HTTP conversations for later replay and analysis.
• Replay the client-side of an HTTP conversations.
• Replays HTTP responses of a previously recorded server.
• Make scripted changes to HTTP traffic using a simple Python API.
• Dummy SSL certificate authority creates interception certificates on the fly.

Download

Releases can be found here: http://corte.si/projects.html

Source is hosted here: http://github.com/cortesi/mitmproxy

Requirements

• A recent Python interpreter.
• SSL certificates are generated using openssl
• The curses interface relies on version 0.9.8 or newer of the urwid library.
• The test suite uses the pry unit testing library.

You should also make sure that your console environment is set up with the following:

• EDITOR environment variable to determine the external editor.
• PAGER environment variable to determine the external pager.
• Appropriate entries in your mailcap files to determine external viewers for request and response contents.