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Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by santa_boy »

DerJacques wrote: post #13

This looks great! Congratulations. I particularly like the "shortcuts" to common actions like "Insert JS/CSS". That's very useful! I want to also give a shoutout to https://proxyman.io/ . Proxyman is a native Mac App that also works as a local proxy and is a pleasure to use. I've been using it for similar workflows and can highly recommend it over Charles (the SSL handling alone is 100x simpler).

I too used to use paid-version of Charles and then moved to Proxyman. I particularly like the scripting ability in Proxyman.

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by cyral »

sachinjain wrote: post #28
cyral wrote: post #24

I've been using the Browser extension for years and it is incredibly helpful. We use it to debug scripts on customer websites by making them resolve to our local instance so that we can test fixes quickly. I would recommend some sort of graphic on the homepage to explain what Requestly does though, as you mention it can be confused with Postman when it's entirely different. Maybe an animated flowchart type graphic sh…

So glad to hear this. This is really good feedback. Noted this down. We will soon make this live. We already have an animated gif at https://requestly.io/feature/redirect-url/ Do you mean to say we should have an animated flowchart for the hero image on the page?

Yeah that image is exactly what I was thinking. I clicked the link in the post which was the download page which I mistake for the homepage.

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by sachinjain »

abdusco wrote: post #40

Does it actually have an Android app? A play store button shows up, but it's linked to /#. It either shows up for every platform & browser or the url is missing.

We don't have an Android app. We intended to take it to the "Requestly for Android" page. We are building our SDK landing page and we want to link it there. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by mzfr »

Mattwmaster58 wrote: post #29

I'm interested in this for its potential reverse engineering apps on Android. I've had some success with `mitmproxy` but I'm wondering what other HN-ers use for this purpose.

I use burp suite(community version) for the same purpose along with frida. There is also Brida[1] its sort of a bridge between both of them.

Something which I don't like is that every time I need the traffic to go through burp I need to go the WiFi settings and modify the "advance option" to use proxy. And if I keep the proxy settings on all the time then I've had issues with playstore and other such app, on the testing device. So that small bit of manual work is what I don't like.

In another comment[2] they mentioned they'll be releasing an android interceptor which would work without proxy, I think that would make me try this.

[1] [https://github.com/federicodotta/Brida](https://github.com/f...

[2] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30541263](https://news....

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by sachinjain »

cyral wrote: post #42
sachinjain wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So glad to hear this. This is really good feedback. Noted this down. We will soon make this live. We already have an animated gif at https://requestly.io/feature/redirect-url/ Do you mean to say we should have an animated flowchart for the hero image on the page?

Yeah that image is exactly what I was thinking. I clicked the link in the post which was the download page which I mistake for the homepage.

This makes me realize that we need to improve upon the downloads page too. Noted this down. Feel free to drop me a Hi at sachin@requestly.io

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by sachinjain »

arvindrajnaidu wrote: post #38

I would love to have this capability for iOS apps.

We will soon move to IOS after launching our Android SDK. Please drop me a Hi at sachin@requestly.io and I'd be happy to learn more about your use cases in IOS and I will inform you when its available.

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by chrisweekly »

Mattwmaster58 wrote: post #29

I'm interested in this for its potential reverse engineering apps on Android. I've had some success with `mitmproxy` but I'm wondering what other HN-ers use for this purpose.

Same. mitmproxy (and its built-in mitmdump lib), along w/ the (criminally obscure / amazing) lnav (https://lnav.org), have served me very well in the past for this kind of thing.

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by 101008 »

DerJacques wrote: post #13

This looks great! Congratulations. I particularly like the "shortcuts" to common actions like "Insert JS/CSS". That's very useful! I want to also give a shoutout to https://proxyman.io/ . Proxyman is a native Mac App that also works as a local proxy and is a pleasure to use. I've been using it for similar workflows and can highly recommend it over Charles (the SSL handling alone is 100x simpler).

Proxyman looks like something I always wanted: does it allow you to say "when any browsers/webpage request this URL {url}, return this {content} instead of the original one"? And if it works like that, does anyone know something like that for Windows? Thanks!

Re: Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Post by from »

There's a site I use that checks for membership only on the client side and I use requestly to spoof premium status. Just had to write a simple script like this to modify the response body of the request that gets membership status:

  function modifyResponse(args) {
    const {method, url, response, responseType, requestHeaders, requestData} = args;
    const responseDataParsed = JSON.parse(response);
    responseDataParsed.result.user.vip_end = "2030-06-11T14:16:20.000Z";
    responseDataParsed.result.user.expire_in = "3573 days, 3 hours";
    responseDataParsed.result.user.is_premium = true;
    return JSON.stringify(responseDataParsed);
  }
Very nice software.
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