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Announcing HTTP View: one-click debugging for HTTP(S)

Tim Perry on January 09, 2019

I'm excited to announce that HTTP View (the first release of HTTP Toolkit) is now available! HTTP View is a free & open-source HTTP inspector....
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Erebos Manannán

So, you've built some sort of convenient toolkit for man-in-the-middle attacks against HTTPS?

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Tim Perry

For local development, yes. It's designed as a development & debugging tool rather than a security tool for mitm generally, though it can help there too.

Note that it does fully automatic mitm attacks only against software running on your own machine though, where it can automatically set up the certificates to make that work. For remote devices (e.g. phones) it will be able to fully automatically intercept plain HTTP traffic, but it can't automatically intercept HTTPS - there has to be a manual step that somehow trusts the certificate on the device.

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xca

Hey bro, this is such a great work. Unfortunately, I couldn't download it. Because limit of time for download. I couldn't resume my download after my session expire. Please fix it thank you

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Tim Perry

You should be able to redownload, no problem. There's no sessions involved, it's just a download page.

Or do you mean that the download always fails? How fast is your internet? It is about 80MB, which might be a bit difficult on very slow connections (<5MB) but it should still work eventually.

I do have plans to try and make the installer and app work a little better on slow connections, there's definitely more to do there. If you don't mind me asking, where in the world are you?