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Intercept HTTPS Traffic On A #android Emulator
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Sometimes we are in a situation where we want to see all the network traffic happening in a app. This can be quite troublesome and we therefor need a easy way of doing it.In this article I will cover how to intercept HTTP/HTTPS traffic from a Android emulator by using a #mitm (Man In The Middle) Proxy.For getting started we need two thingsMitmproxy (For creating our proxy server)Android emulator (For running the application on)We start by installing #mitmproxy, they have nice installation guides on their website. When using Mac with HomeBrew you can do brew install mitmproxy.After installing Mitmproxy, we need to setup a android emulator. The approach we are taking here requires us to use a Android version lower than 7. I use Android 6 (API 23).AVD example of setup with Android 6 (API (...)

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Intercepting HTTP requests from #electron apps with #postman
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Not all APIs are documented. In a recent project — VSCodeThemes, I set out to scrape the Visual Studio Marketplace without an official API.Using Chrome’s network inspector and capturing requests made from the #vscode desktop app, I was able reverse engineer the marketplace API.This post will cover how you can use Postman to intercept HTTP requests from Electron applications with only a few clicks.Start Postman’s proxyThis first thing you’re going to do is open Postman. If you don’t have it you can download it from here.Once it’s opened, configuring Postman’s #proxy server is as simple as clicking on the Satellite icon.Click the Satellite icon to configure the proxy server.Using the defaults will start the proxy server on port 5555 and log all output to history. Click the Connect button to start the (...)

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