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authorMaximilian Hils <git@maximilianhils.com>2016-02-15 14:58:46 +0100
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-.. _transparent:
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-Transparent Proxying
-====================
-
-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_ on Linux
-or pf_ 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.
-
-.. _iptables: http://www.netfilter.org/
-.. _pf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF_\(firewall\)