This repository contains the mitmproxy and pathod projects, as well as their shared networking library, netlib.
mitmproxy is an interactive, SSL-capable intercepting proxy with a console
interface.
mitmdump is the command-line version of mitmproxy. Think tcpdump for HTTP.
pathoc and pathod are perverse HTTP client and server applications
designed to let you craft almost any conceivable HTTP request, including ones
that creatively violate the standards.
Documentation, tutorials and precompiled binaries can be found on the mitmproxy and pathod websites.
The latest documentation for mitmproxy is also available on ReadTheDocs.
You can join our developer chat on Slack.
The installation instructions are here. If you want to contribute changes, keep on reading.
To get started hacking on mitmproxy, make sure you have Python 2.7.x. with virtualenv installed (you can find installation instructions for virtualenv here_). Then do the following:
git clone https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy.git
cd mitmproxy
./dev.sh
The dev script will create a virtualenv environment in a directory called "venv", and install all mandatory and optional dependencies into it. The primary mitmproxy components - mitmproxy, netlib and pathod - are installed as "editable", so any changes to the source in the repository will be reflected live in the virtualenv.
To confirm that you're up and running, activate the virtualenv, and run the mitmproxy test suite:
. venv/bin/activate # venv\Scripts\activate.bat on Windows
py.test
Note that the main executables for the project - mitmdump, mitmproxy,
mitmweb, pathod, and pathoc - are all created within the
virtualenv. After activating the virtualenv, they will be on your $PATH, and
you can run them like any other command:
mitmdump --version
For convenience, the project includes an autoenv file (.env) that auto-activates the virtualenv when you cd into the mitmproxy directory.
If you've followed the procedure above, you already have all the development requirements installed, and you can simply run the test suite:
py.test
Please ensure that all patches are accompanied by matching changes in the test suite. The project tries to maintain 100% test coverage.
The mitmproxy documentation is build using Sphinx, which is installed automatically if you set up a development environment as described above. After installation, you can render the documentation like this:
cd docs
make clean
make html
make livehtml
The last command invokes sphinx-autobuild, which watches the Sphinx directory and rebuilds the documentation when a change is detected.
Keeping to a consistent code style throughout the project makes it easier to contribute and collaborate. Please stick to the guidelines in PEP8 and the Google Style Guide unless there's a very good reason not to.