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diff --git a/doc-src/transparent.html b/doc-src/transparent.html deleted file mode 100644 index 4e9b6774..00000000 --- a/doc-src/transparent.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ - -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. |