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| author | Aldo Cortesi <aldo@nullcube.com> | 2011-02-21 12:11:41 +1300 |
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| committer | Aldo Cortesi <aldo@nullcube.com> | 2011-02-21 12:11:41 +1300 |
| commit | b60282e71b128eecb3796c7488bc5b3d7072855e (patch) | |
| tree | 10ebdebfe8fcb016d159910c4385f646d99d8a12 | |
| parent | c346a382d64103436ab7dd589878009cd4dee0d0 (diff) | |
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Make README reflect reality.
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@@ -9,18 +9,15 @@ everything you need to know. Note that requests and responses are stored in-memory until you delete them, so leaving mitmproxy running indefinitely or requesting very large amounts of data through it is a bad idea. + SSL --- The first time mitmproxy is started, it will generate a bogus SSL certificate -(the default location is ~/.mitmproxy/cert.pem). This certificate will be used -for the browser-side of intercepted traffic. Because it won't match any domain -you visit, and won't verify against any certificate authority, you will have to -add an exception for each site you visit. SSL requests are intercepted by -simply assuming that all CONNECT requests are https. The connection from the -browser is wrapped in SSL, and we read the request by pretending to be the -connecting server. We then open an SSL request to the destination server, and -replay the request. +authority (the default location is ~/.mitmproxy/ca.pem). This CA is used to +generate certificates for SSL requests on-the-fly. To avoid the hassle of +having to accept these certificates individually, you can add the certificate +authority to your browser or globally to your system. Documentation @@ -28,13 +25,13 @@ Documentation A rendered version of the docs for the latest release can be found here: -http://corte.si/projects +http://corte.si/projects.html Download -------- -Releases can be found here: http://corte.si/projects +Releases can be found here: http://corte.si/projects.html Source is hosted here: http://github.com/cortesi/mitmproxy |