HTTP Telescope

Debug HTTP requests using a reverse proxy.

Description

This is a simple single-host reverse proxy that intercept and save HTTP requests and responses (including plaintext bodies) in memory. It has a minimal web dashboard.

How to build

Clone the repo and issue go build ./cmd/http-telescope or use the docker image enrico204/http-telescope:latest.

Usage

Usage: http-telescope [options] [arguments]

OPTIONS
  --config-path/$CFG_CONFIG_PATH                    <string>    (default: /conf/config.yml)
  --web-listen/$CFG_WEB_LISTEN                      <string>    (default: 0.0.0.0:3001)
  --web-ui/$CFG_WEB_UI                              <string>    (default: 0.0.0.0:3002)
  --web-read-timeout/$CFG_WEB_READ_TIMEOUT          <duration>  (default: 5s)
  --web-write-timeout/$CFG_WEB_WRITE_TIMEOUT        <duration>  (default: 5s)
  --web-shutdown-timeout/$CFG_WEB_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT  <duration>  (default: 5s)
  --web-upstream/$CFG_WEB_UPSTREAM                  <string>    
  --log-level/$CFG_LOG_LEVEL                        <string>    (default: warn)
  --log-method-name/$CFG_LOG_METHOD_NAME            <bool>      (default: false)
  --log-json/$CFG_LOG_JSON                          <bool>      (default: false)
  --log-destination/$CFG_LOG_DESTINATION            <string>    (default: stderr)
  --log-file/$CFG_LOG_FILE                          <string>    (default: /tmp/debug.log)
  --disable-caching/$CFG_DISABLE_CACHING            <bool>      (default: false)
  --store-body/$CFG_STORE_BODY                      <bool>      (default: false)
  --help/-h                                         
  display this help message

--web-listen/$CFG_WEB_LISTEN is the listen address for the reverse proxy
--web-ui/$CFG_WEB_UI is the listen address for the web UI
--web-upstream/$CFG_WEB_UPSTREAM is the web upstream
--store-body/$CFG_STORE_BODY flag controls whether http-telescope need to capture the body or not. Note that the body is stored only if all of these are true:
- it's plaintext (e.g., text/*, JSON/XML or URL-form encoded mime types)
- Content-Length header is available (notably, in HTTP/2 is optional)
- content length is less than 10KiB

Example usage

http-telescope --web-upstream http://www.myserver.com

License