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+.. _passthrough:
+
+Ignore Domains
+==============
+
+There are two main reasons why you may want to exempt some traffic from mitmproxy's interception
+mechanism:
+
+- **Certificate pinning:** Some traffic is is protected using `Certificate Pinning`_ and
+  mitmproxy's interception leads to errors. For example, the Twitter app, Windows Update or
+  the Apple App Store fail to work if mitmproxy is active.
+- **Convenience:** You really don't care about some parts of the traffic and just want them to go
+  away.
+
+If you want to peek into (SSL-protected) non-HTTP connections, check out the :ref:`tcpproxy`
+feature.
+If you want to ignore traffic from mitmproxy's processing because of large response bodies,
+take a look at the :ref:`responsestreaming` feature.
+
+How it works
+------------
+
+================== =============================
+command-line       :option:`--ignore regex`
+mitmproxy shortcut :kbd:`o` then :kbd:`I`
+================== =============================
+
+
+mitmproxy allows you to specify a regex which is matched against a ``host:port`` string
+(e.g. "example.com:443") to determine hosts that should be excluded.
+
+There are two important quirks to consider:
+
+- **In transparent mode, the ignore pattern is matched against the IP and ClientHello SNI host.** While we usually infer the
+  hostname from the Host header if the :option:`--host` argument is passed to mitmproxy, we do not
+  have access to this information before the SSL handshake. If the client uses SNI however, then we treat the SNI host as an ignore target.
+- In regular mode, explicit HTTP requests are never ignored. [#explicithttp]_ The ignore pattern is
+  applied on CONNECT requests, which initiate HTTPS or clear-text WebSocket connections.
+
+Tutorial
+--------
+
+If you just want to ignore one specific domain, there's usually a bulletproof method to do so:
+
+1. Run mitmproxy or mitmdump in verbose mode (:option:`-v`) and observe the ``host:port``
+   information in the serverconnect messages. mitmproxy will filter on these.
+2. Take the ``host:port`` string, surround it with ^ and $, escape all dots (. becomes \\.)
+   and use this as your ignore pattern:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+    :emphasize-lines: 6,7,9
+
+    >>> mitmdump -v
+    127.0.0.1:50588: clientconnect
+    127.0.0.1:50588: request
+      -> CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1
+    127.0.0.1:50588: Set new server address: example.com:443
+    127.0.0.1:50588: serverconnect
+      -> example.com:443
+    ^C
+    >>> mitmproxy --ignore ^example\.com:443$
+
+
+Here are some other examples for ignore patterns:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+    # Exempt traffic from the iOS App Store (the regex is lax, but usually just works):
+    --ignore apple.com:443
+    # "Correct" version without false-positives:
+    --ignore '^(.+\.)?apple\.com:443$'
+
+    # Ignore example.com, but not its subdomains:
+    --ignore '^example.com:'
+
+    # Ignore everything but example.com and mitmproxy.org:
+    --ignore '^(?!example\.com)(?!mitmproxy\.org)'
+
+    # Transparent mode:
+    --ignore 17\.178\.96\.59:443
+    # IP address range:
+    --ignore 17\.178\.\d+\.\d+:443
+
+
+.. seealso::
+
+    - :ref:`tcpproxy`
+    - :ref:`responsestreaming`
+
+.. rubric:: Footnotes
+
+.. [#explicithttp] This stems from an limitation of explicit HTTP proxying:
+    A single connection can be re-used for multiple target domains - a
+    ``GET http://example.com/`` request may be followed by a ``GET http://evil.com/`` request on the
+    same connection. If we start to ignore the connection after the first request,
+    we would miss the relevant second one.
+.. _Certificate Pinning: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29988/what-is-certificate-pinning