Re:Show HN: A proxy service for debugging HTTP/S traffic
by throwaway2016a on Saturday December 09, 2017 @10:06AM
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> mitmproxy is indeed great, in fact, this service is build on mitmproxy instances :)
I can appreciate this. Pre-configured / zero config open source software as a service is a useful thing. Not everyone wants to install, configure, and deal with command line tools.
Are there tradeoffs? Sure. Would I personally make those tradeoffs? No. But I am sure some people will.
Re:Show HN: A proxy service for debugging HTTP/S traffic
by tarnacious_ on Saturday December 09, 2017 @10:25AM
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This is my thoughts too. I wouldn't think it is very useful to most mitmproxy/fiddler/charles power users.
But not having to install something, find your IP address, open your firewall etc, allows some users who don't want to do all this to start using a debugging proxy without having to. I'm not sure how many of these users exist though, we will see!
Yes. Requests more than 20 minutes old are permanently deleted.
> Furthermore, all the traffic from the my pc to your proxy is also transmitted unencrypted so everyone who sits between my device and your proxy can see my traffic as well.
No, if you make HTTPS requests they are tunneled over TLS.
> While this interface looks really cool and it is probably feature rich,
Thanks. It isn't feature rich though, it's quite minimal.
> If anyone is interested in a local http(a) proxy, check out mitmproxy[0] which is open source, runs locally and is easy to install (I’m not affiliated with them, i use use mitmproxy occasionally when Reverse Engineering am API).
mitmproxy is indeed great, in fact, this service is build on mitmproxy instances :)