Mitmproxy is an open-source tool designed to assist with the testing, debugging, and development of HTTP(S) applications. Here's a tutorial on how to install Mitmproxy on macOS:
Homebrew is a popular package manager for macOS that makes it easy to install and manage third-party software. You can install it by running the following command in the terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Mitmproxy requires Python3 to run. You can install it through Homebrew by running:
brew install python3
After you have installed Python3, you can install Mitmproxy via pip, which is a package manager for Python. Run the following command in your terminal:
pip3 install mitmproxy
You can verify that Mitmproxy is installed correctly by running the following command:
mitmproxy --version
If the installation was successful, you should see an output like this:
Mitmproxy: X.X.X
Python: X.X.X
Platform: Darwin-X.X.X-Xxxxx
To make sure you can launch Mitmproxy from anywhere in the terminal, you will need to configure the PATH environment variable. You can do this by adding the following line to your shell configuration file:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
If you're using the default shell, open and edit the .bash_profile file:
nano ~/.bash_profile
Add the export statement and save the file. Then, run the following command to load the changes:
source ~/.bash_profile
You can launch Mitmproxy by running the following command in the terminal:
mitmproxy
It will start a proxy server on the default port of 8080. You can open your browser and configure the connection to use the proxy, so that all the traffic goes through Mitmproxy.
With this tutorial, you've learned how to install Mitmproxy on macOS. Now you can use Mitmproxy for your HTTP(S) application testing and development.
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