Comment by syntaxing
10 days ago
It’s actually really easy to use mitmproxy as a…proxy. You set it up as a SOCKS proxy (or whatever) and point your network or browser to the proxy. I did this recently when a python tool was too aggressive on crawling the web and the server would reject me. Forced my session to limit 5 requests per second and it worked rather than finding the exact file to change in the library. Just do the same to your browser and then turn on the capture mode and you’ll see the requests
Actually intercepting the cleartext data is less trivial (not inherently - the browsers just make it more obscure than it could be) but it can be done.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820977
The idea is to simplify and store it... Thinking of changing it to http relay, what do you think?