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authorMaximilian Hils <git@maximilianhils.com>2014-01-22 16:01:31 +0100
committerMaximilian Hils <git@maximilianhils.com>2014-01-22 16:01:31 +0100
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-When a transparent proxy is used, traffic is redirected into a proxy at the
-network layer, without any client configuration being required. This makes
-transparent proxying ideal for those situations where you can't change client
-behaviour - proxy-oblivious Android applications being a common example.
-
-To set up transparent proxying, we need two new components. The first is a
-redirection mechanism that transparently reroutes a TCP connection destined for
-a server on the Internet to a listening proxy server. This usually takes the
-form of a firewall on the same host as the proxy server -
-[iptables](http://www.netfilter.org/) on Linux or
-[pf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF_\(firewall\)) on OSX. When the proxy
-receives a redirected connection, it sees a vanilla HTTP request, without a
-host specification. This is where the second new component comes in - a host
-module that allows us to query the redirector for the original destination of
-the TCP connection.
-
-At the moment, mitmproxy supports transparent proxying on OSX Lion and above,
-and all current flavors of Linux.