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Introduction
============

**mitmproxy** is an interactive, SSL-capable man-in-the-middle proxy for HTTP
with a console interface.

**mitmdump** is the command-line version of mitmproxy. Think tcpdump for HTTP.

**libmproxy** is the library that mitmproxy and mitmdump are built on.

Documentation, tutorials and distribution packages can be found on the
mitmproxy website: `mitmproxy.org <https://mitmproxy.org/>`_


.. rubric:: Features


- Intercept HTTP requests and responses and modify them on the fly.
- Save complete HTTP conversations for later replay and analysis.
- Replay the client-side of an HTTP conversations.
- Replay HTTP responses of a previously recorded server.
- Reverse proxy mode to forward traffic to a specified server.
- Transparent proxy mode on OSX and Linux.
- Make scripted changes to HTTP traffic using Python.
- SSL certificates for interception are generated on the fly.
- And much, much more.