mitmproxy
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“this glorious new mitmproxy feature”
“mitmproxy is an amazing cli powertool I first discovered over a decade ago”
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“I think it's a useful exercise for most people to sniff the traffic at least once”
“I think it's a useful exercise for most people to sniff the traffic at least once”
“just tell the agent to setup an mitmproxy to watch the traffic”
Caveats and dissent
“mitmproxy doesnt check it even when ssl_insecure=false”
“then the TLS handshake started failing”
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“until they changed all they keybindings around version 2”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Release is out now, including a blog post at https://www.mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-12.3/.”
“I didn't expect this commit to end up on HN”
Threads where it came up
- A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending 4 mentions
- mitmproxy adds --emudhra option 3 mentions
- The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models 3 mentions
- Charles Proxy 3 mentions
- eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business 1 mention
- Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? 1 mention
Data: mitmproxy.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 24
“this glorious new mitmproxy feature”
“mitmproxy is an amazing cli powertool I first discovered over a decade ago”
“In my mitmproxy experiments”
“I was running a little mitmproxy network test”
“You can extract keys out of Authy using mitm-proxy.”
“I think it's a useful exercise for most people to sniff the traffic at least once”
“I think it's a useful exercise for most people to sniff the traffic at least once”
“just tell the agent to setup an mitmproxy to watch the traffic”
“I used mitmproxy (setup assisted by Claude, natch) to capture Claude Code's entire initial system prompt”
“I also settled on mitmproxy.”
“you (and any GrapheneOS user) can do it today with mitmproxy and RethinkDNS”
“mitmproxy doesnt check it even when ssl_insecure=false”
Looks like it's implemented that way already? https://github.com/jmuncor/sherlock/blob/fb76605fabbda351828ebc0e042f03d13caee502/sherlock/interceptor.py#L17
“Addon to mitmproxy:”
“then the TLS handshake started failing”
“It's not fully working for all workflows yet. But it's getting close”
“For me, HAproxy is smaller and faster than mitmproxy”
“I have had great experience scripting and running”
“mitmproxy isn't the gold standard; it is Burp Suite, sadly.”
“until they changed all they keybindings around version 2”
“The closest free alternative is https://www.mitmproxy.org/ that is not even close.”
“I got different results using a local mitmproxy on a clean install.”
“not just the HTTP calls (like you would see with mitmproxy)”
“then I found out about: https://www.mitmproxy.org/”