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Re:Charles Proxy by punnerud on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:14AM (#46334692)
I was a daily user of mitmproxy, until they changed all they keybindings around version 2. Tried a couple of times to get used to the new “TMUX” style, but switched to Charles Proxy.

Have mitmproxy gotten any better in usability over the years?

Just based on the images, is seems to have the same problems?

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Re:Charles Proxy by NicolaiS on Saturday December 20, 2025 @08:35AM (#46336080)
> Have mitmproxy gotten any better in usability over the years?

The new-ish "Local Capture" and "WireGuard"-mode are quite nice.

And running e.g. `mitmproxy --ignore-hosts '.*' --show-ignored-hosts` [1] for monitoring apps with certificate pinning also a new feature

[1] cmd will turn mitmproxy into a "non-MITM proxy" but do show domains (SNI) the app is connecting to.

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Re:Charles Proxy by jeroenhd on Saturday December 20, 2025 @11:09AM (#46337147)
I generally prefer mitmweb, the web frontend for mitmproxy. I don't have much of a problem with their tmux-like UI, but I find mitmweb a lot easier to use than the keyboard shortcut based terminal navigation.
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Re:Charles Proxy by punnerud on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:06PM (#46367551)
Same experience. The V1 and V2 was simple to use to clear, start capture, navigate etc. Everything felt broken after the switch, for the trade off to get more features?

Maybe I should do a fork and try to fix it again

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