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Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by beaconstudios » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 3:30 PM UTC

iopuy wrote: post #29

Is there an extreme amount of astro-turfing going on in this thread? I looked at the profiles of 3 of the most fervent supporters of this tool (comments by livin21, shyjal, and g0vz) and the accounts had only 1 other comment among all 3 over the course of years. Is this tool really that amazing that several lurkers have come from the shadows after years of silence to pledge their allegiance? Those were literally the…

"growth hacking"

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by iopuy » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 3:35 PM UTC

aneesv wrote: post #13

wingi wrote: post #9

Can I use it as a transparent proxy with SSL certificate support like Charles?

This is a proxy at the HTTP level. So you can proxy and view request/response for HTTPS requests without configuring any certificates

Can you explain what this means?

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by saleeh » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 3:36 PM UTC

iopuy wrote: post #29

Is there an extreme amount of astro-turfing going on in this thread? I looked at the profiles of 3 of the most fervent supporters of this tool (comments by livin21, shyjal, and g0vz) and the accounts had only 1 other comment among all 3 over the course of years. Is this tool really that amazing that several lurkers have come from the shadows after years of silence to pledge their allegiance? Those were literally the…

Understood your concern. These were our early users and being giving us feedback till now.

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by saleeh » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 3:39 PM UTC

ken wrote: post #27

The animations on the home page are way too fast, and with such tiny text, that I can't figure out what they're doing.

Thanks for the feedback, We are working on it, Here is a simple video on how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVIE_yeViNo

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by saleeh » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 3:51 PM UTC

iopuy wrote: post #32

aneesv wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a proxy at the HTTP level. So you can proxy and view request/response for HTTPS requests without configuring any certificates

Can you explain what this means?

This acts as a proxy server for any API. All the request capture by intercept and it'll capture the response from the original endpoint and reply back

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by livin21 » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:10 PM UTC

iopuy wrote: post #29

Is there an extreme amount of astro-turfing going on in this thread? I looked at the profiles of 3 of the most fervent supporters of this tool (comments by livin21, shyjal, and g0vz) and the accounts had only 1 other comment among all 3 over the course of years. Is this tool really that amazing that several lurkers have come from the shadows after years of silence to pledge their allegiance? Those were literally the…

:D I am not active on HN. But was using this tool since its development phase and was in a constant feedback loop with the devs. Classifying some HN noob's positive comment on a tool he used as astroturfing is kinda discouraging :)

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by iopuy » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:14 PM UTC

saleeh wrote: post #35

iopuy wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain what this means?

This acts as a proxy server for any API. All the request capture by intercept and it'll capture the response from the original endpoint and reply back

This is the same for HTTPS traffic? You can view the content of requests without installing a cert?

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by saleeh » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:18 PM UTC

tempay wrote: post #26

This looks great! I'm currently in the process of reverse engineering an API from its source. This is perfect for quickly comparing the requests made between the official client and my own implementation.

Thanks for your feedback. I hope this will work for your use case

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by saleeh » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:19 PM UTC

mattdmrs wrote: post #21

Looks awesome! Quick note about the landing page: the GIF captures in the "How it works" section are a bit vertically stretched, weirdly pixellated and really too quick to understand what's going on.

Thanks for pointing out. Will update the GIFs soon.

Re: Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging

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Post by saleeh » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:24 PM UTC

monsieurbanana wrote: post #23

There's autoplay sound on your website and absolutely no way of turning it off.

oops. Apologies for that. Fixing that soon.