mitmproxy is an SSL-capable man-in-the-middle proxy for HTTP. 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 user interface. Think tcpdump for HTTP.
Complete documentation and a set of practical tutorials is included in the distribution package, and is also available at mitmproxy.org.
- 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.
- Replay HTTP responses of a previously recorded server.
- Reverse proxy mode to forward traffic to a specified server.
- Make scripted changes to HTTP traffic using Python.
- SSL certificates for interception are generated on the fly.
Releases and rendered documentation can be found on the mitmproxy website:
Source is hosted on github:
Come join us in the #mitmproxy channel on the OFTC IRC network (irc://irc.oftc.net:6667).
We also have a mailing list, hosted here:
http://groups.google.com/group/mitmproxy
- Python 2.6.x or 2.7.x.
- PyOpenSSL 0.12 or newer.
- pyasn1 0.1.2 or newer.
- urwid version 0.9.8 or newer.
- The test suite uses the pry unit testing library.
- Rendering the documentation requires countershape.
mitmproxy is tested and developed on OSX, Linux and OpenBSD.
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.