27 Feb 26

Proxyman is a native, high-performance HTTP debugging proxy app for macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Capture, inspect, and mock HTTP/HTTPS requests with ease. The best Charles Proxy and Fiddler alternative for developers.


03 Feb 25

httptap is a process-scoped http tracer that you can run without root priveleges. You can run httptap <command> where <command> is a linux program and you get a trace of http/https requests and responses in standard output.

It works by running <command> in an isolated network namespace. It has its own TCP/IP stack (for which it uses gVisor). It is not an HTTP proxy and so does not rely on <command> being configured to use an HTTP proxy. It decrypts TLS traffic by generating a CA on the fly. It won’t install any iptables rules or make other global system changes.

by mlb Feb 2025 saved 2 times

27 Jun 24

Apparently getting polled requests correctly is a li’l bit tricky. I do a li’l bit of scraping from cron and I didn’t know any of this stuff 😰

by 2097 Jun 2024 saved 2 times

18 Jun 21

Illustrated introduction to HTTPS: what problems it solves, and how it works.


18 Jan 08

https://example.com # https://example.com/file.php?var1=val1&var2=val2 # https://user:password@example.com