Minimal demo app which querys an external API via HTTPS.

• Clone the repo to your local disc.
• create a virtualenvironment
• add requirements: Django, requests and mitmproxy, just run pip install -r requirements.txt

Start mitmproxy for the first time (no root user is required). At $HOME/.mitmproxy the CA certificates of the proxy are stored.

The following environment variables have to be set:

HTTPS_PROXY=http://localhost:8080 This tells requests to use the proxy

REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=$HOME/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca.pem This tells requests where the CA of the proxy server is, that the TLS handshake can be completed successfully.

./manage.py runserver

Open a browser and navigate the adress, typically http://localhost:8000.