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

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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?

Yup, this works both HTTP and HTTPS without any certs.

Hope this helps

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

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Some feedback: * How did you measure that your development work was accelerated 10x faster? Or is that just a hyperbole? I think this matters because otherwise you are making claims that are not justified. * When I visit the website, it autoplays some voice and it put me off immediately.

For us, it saved a lot of time after creating this tool. We are running appmaker.xyz for the last 3 years. And we convert WooCommerce website to the mobile app in minutes.

For us, while user create an app using our platform we have no access to the client-server, It was a hell to debug. We built this tool a couple of weeks back. For us reproducing the error at checkout page will take a while(without tool). (Choose product -> Add to cart -> enter address -> Choose payment gateway).

We build this to overcome all those and in one click we can reproduce that. The beauty is that we can reproduce the same request caused by the client while testing the app.

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

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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 :)

This sparked my curiosity.

Is this your github https://github.com/Livin21 ? I see this person is from Cochin, India [1]. I then see the facebook page linked to on your website [2] mentions your founder [3] who happens to be from Kochi [4] which is the same city [5].

This is quite odd, no?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/tBCmKGY

[2] https://imgur.com/a/RZgKg9Y

[3] https://imgur.com/a/fbMnrrh

[4] https://imgur.com/a/9sn4LSs

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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

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Thanks!

I would really appreciate if you could give us some honest feedback. or any suggestion Thanks

I've used mitmproxy in the past for debugging purposes but there was always a stipulation that one must install a cert on the machine in order to intercept HTTPS traffic. If intercept.rest can accomplish the same thing without the need to install a cert I could see this being very useful.

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

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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…

The OP seems to have asked early users to vote and comment in the mistaken idea that this would help the post do better on HN, when in fact it's the fast track to getting flagged and penalized. Doing this is against HN's rules, of course. We want people to vote and comment because they ran across something and found it intellectually interesting, not because they or a friend has something to promote.

We have software to detect such violations. In addition, seasoned HN users figure out what's going on and react quite aversely, as you demonstrated. Once such a ring has been identified, if the story is still on the front page, users will flag it (as happened here) or moderators will penalize it. Plus we often ban the accounts and site involved.

This case seems to have been at least in part an honest mistake. More importantly, the tool seems to be of some interest to the community. Because the most important thing on HN is to have interesting things to discuss, I'm going to reduce the penalty on this post and let the discussion continue.

I hope everyone realizes that this is a rare outcome. The more common outcome is that we ban the accounts and sites involved. So please don't do this!

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

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It's time to ditch Charles proxy and start using intercept. The configuration looks easy and simple when compared with Charles. Thanks for creating an awesome tool.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078660. Promotional comments aren't good here.
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