Totally nice side effect. Since this launches "fresh Chrome/Firefox". I can use it to read all these paid news sites that track how many "free articles" I have and don't have to worry about resetting all my cookies. Just launch HTTP Toolkit then Fresh Firefox/Chrome, paste link and done.
Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
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Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fiddler is a bit of an ugly duck, and you even have to give your e-mail address away to Telerik. However, it does have scripting ability and supports extensions and one can be very powerful in it if you know what to look for. I actually use extension functionality to extend Fiddler a bit to emulate our internal authenticating proxies we have at work (like PingFederation).
Yeah, eventually I'd love to be able to do scripting etc, but it's dramatically more complicated. There's the language debate to start with. E.g. Fiddler uses JScript.NET, which isn't exactly the language of choice nowadays. Realistically whatever language you choose, you have some big problems. Different groups want different tools, some want external packages, some want data stores, it's a whole thing. It's a good…
Fiddler also supports C# scripting nowadays.
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#73Totally nice side effect. Since this launches "fresh Chrome/Firefox". I can use it to read all these paid news sites that track how many "free articles" I have and don't have to worry about resetting all my cookies. Just launch HTTP Toolkit then Fresh Firefox/Chrome, paste link and done.
You can also open the dev console and click "Clear site data". It won't evade complex tracking/fingerprinting techniques, but I don't think paywall sites use those to enforce the paywall (yet...).
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#74Hey HN! I've been building this for a while, but up until now it's been a read-only HTTP debugging tool, and today's my first foray into proper mocking, which opens up a whole new world of fun (and practical use cases). Let me know what you think :-)
It may be interesting to have a rpm package
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#75Arch AUR package here everyone > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/httptoolkit/ `yay -S httptoolkit` AUR is 0.1.13 and latest is 0.1.14 fwiw.
WOW. Just WOW. Easiest intercepter I have EVER used. (Charles, Fiddler, MITMProxy). After install I was able to edit requests and responses with the MOCK rules in no time. The language was confusing but I got through it and WOW. Nice job on the UI too, Linux UI's are hit or miss and HTTP Toolkit's is pleasant!
Haha, thanks! Glad you like it.
When you say 'the language was confusing' though, what do you mean? I should fix that.
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#76Is netflix's PollyJS also trying to solve this? https://netflix.github.io/pollyjs/#/
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#77I understand why you're doing it, but the download link redirecting me to an email capture page is quite jarring. If your download link is at the top of your homepage, and there's more product details below that link, it's pretty typical to hit download and assume it's a normal download link while you read the rest of the page. An easily dismissible modal would work better (or put an email capture in your app on firs…
Hmm, interesting. I really just did it without much thought, I didn't think it was particularly unusual behaviour. That said, this completely makes sense, I'm definitely going to look at that. I could fairly easily swap the 'sign up for updates' in directly in place of the download button when that's clicked I think, which would avoid the extra page and the modal all together, make everything much nicer, and still gi…
I don't see too much of a problem, just that if the download link does not come up right away (this could be caused by a user's browser settings or connection speed, which are beyond your control) it looks like they have been taken to a "Here, have some spam instead" page. I would just switch the position and styling of "Sign up for updates" and "You are now downloading..." so that confirming the download request is the primary message on the screen. You could also ask a user to wait three seconds and make them look at your (now less prominent) appeal to sign-up for emails while they do so.
The project looks very nice and I do a lot of HTTP work so I will try it out today. Good work!
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#78Hey HN! I've been building this for a while, but up until now it's been a read-only HTTP debugging tool, and today's my first foray into proper mocking, which opens up a whole new world of fun (and practical use cases). Let me know what you think :-)
I hope this works out! Using fiddler us such a frustrating experience. The documentation is practically non existent and the ux is atrocious, and as far as I can tell the closest thing to a manual is a paid ebook by the developer (I was so pissed when I discovered this). I would be very happy to have an open source alternative!
I don't mind Fiddler, and $15 dollars for a book on a free, incredibly powerful, tool is a bargain IMHO.
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope this works out! Using fiddler us such a frustrating experience. The documentation is practically non existent and the ux is atrocious, and as far as I can tell the closest thing to a manual is a paid ebook by the developer (I was so pissed when I discovered this). I would be very happy to have an open source alternative!
I don't mind Fiddler, and $15 dollars for a book on a free, incredibly powerful, tool is a bargain IMHO.
What bothers me is not the price, it's that the only documentation available is an ebook that one of the developers wrote as a side project. The tool is very powerful, but it's a nightmare to use, and it doesn't matter how powerful it is if you spend more time struggling with the software than fixing the problem you have that requires it in the first place. I'm just happy that someone is attempting to create an alternative with a focus on usability and cross platform support.
Re: Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mind Fiddler, and $15 dollars for a book on a free, incredibly powerful, tool is a bargain IMHO.
What bothers me is not the price, it's that the only documentation available is an ebook that one of the developers wrote as a side project. The tool is very powerful, but it's a nightmare to use, and it doesn't matter how powerful it is if you spend more time struggling with the software than fixing the problem you have that requires it in the first place. I'm just happy that someone is attempting to create an alter…
Yeah fair, Fiddler is definitely well...fiddly, and a bit dated as well.
Agree that it's good to see new alternatives.