mitmproxy is your swiss-army knife for debugging, testing, privacy measurements, and penetration testing.
It can be used to intercept, inspect, modify and replay web traffic such as HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSockets, or any other SSL/TLS-protected protocols. You can prettify and decode a variety of message types ranging from HTML to Protobuf, intercept specific messages on-the-fly, modify them before they reach their destination, and replay them to a client or server later on.
This is free and open source software.
Website: mitmproxy.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Aldo Cortesi
License: MIT License

mitmproxy is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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