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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 prithvi24 »

sachinjain wrote: post #35
jwong_ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the links! Curious on the body -- you showed some JSON requests, but do image resources or other larger responses also get proxied and viewable from browser? For example, sometimes I like to view large minified JS blobs or images. Would that be viewable in the browser? Also, what do the production vs debugging logs look like? Do you just run a special debugging build or is that a flag triggered within pref…

Our Native SDK provides listening to API Requests and Analytics events in your app. In order to view JS blogs or Images, you can use the desktop app - https://requestly.io/desktop We provide the capability that you can disable the SDK in production builds and enable only in the debug builds. And yes we are going to provide the capability using which you can download or share the APIs and events sessions with your sup…

With the desktop app, could network requests from .NET apps / more traditional software be intercepted / listened to?

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

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Post by matt_heimer »

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've been building a list of apps and libraries in this space. In no particular order:

https://requestly.io/

https://portswigger.net/burp

https://dutzi.github.io/tamper/

https://anyproxy.io/en/

https://wproxy.org/whistle/

https://www.telerik.com/fiddler

https://github.com/alibaba/lightproxy

https://httptoolkit.tech/

https://mitmproxy.org/

https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslPeekAndSplice

https://www.charlesproxy.com/

https://nssurge.com/

https://wrapapi.com/proxy

https://www.privoxy.org/

http://www.tofuproxy.stargrave.org/

https://github.com/http-party/node-http-proxy

https://github.com/joeferner/node-http-mitm-proxy

https://www.zaproxy.org/

https://proxyman.io

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

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Post by matt_heimer »

Congratulations! Looks super cool!

How challenging will it be to continue offering Chrome browser extension with the v3 manifest changes related to the blocking webRequest API? Does it impact requestly?

The Linux page, https://requestly.io/downloads/linux/, has MacOS instructions instead of Linux.

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

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Post by matt_heimer »

sachinjain wrote: post #7
moritonal wrote: post #5

You could likely benefit from having a designer look at your onboarding flow. I get it's a developer tool, but the Docs, Pricing and Homepage are completely different colour schemes (Pricing defaults to dark on my machine) and this comes across as a disjointed product (and is quite an easy win!). Sure, it's a dev-tool and we're not as fussed about design. But the pricing page has so much going on at once that I strug…

Thank you for the feedback. Landing pages need more work. We've recently worked on our pricing page so I'd really appreciate if you can provide more insights into what can be improved on the pricing page.

I think the pricing page might be trying to hard. You typically see the endorsements and "also used by..." on the home page or success story type pages. If I rip out everything between the plans and the FAQ the result is much calmer (to me) and I can focus on the difference between the offerings.

Maybe A/B test the page with and without all the ratings/endorsements and see if one leads to better conversion.

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

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Post by sachinjain »

from wrote: post #50

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…

This is clever. How was the experience with Modify API Response? Were you able to figure out everything on your own or Was there a learning curve?

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

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Post by sachinjain »

prithvi24 wrote: post #51
sachinjain wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our Native SDK provides listening to API Requests and Analytics events in your app. In order to view JS blogs or Images, you can use the desktop app - https://requestly.io/desktop We provide the capability that you can disable the SDK in production builds and enable only in the debug builds. And yes we are going to provide the capability using which you can download or share the APIs and events sessions with your sup…

With the desktop app, could network requests from .NET apps / more traditional software be intercepted / listened to?

Yes, this should be possible. You can always open a new issue here - https://github.com/requestly/requestly/issues if you need help with anything.

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

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Post by sachinjain »

invalidname wrote: post #22
Sytten wrote: post #20

Congratulation! We are big fans of Requestly at Caido as we are building something somewhat similar for the infosec community ( https://caido.io ). Requestly feels good and there is a lot of potential for production debugging. I particularly like the switching of API endpoint so you can use the live prod website with a local API, super useful to debug.

If your interest extends to debugging production backends you can also check out Lightrun ( https://lightrun.com ) which continues this all the way through.

Lightrun looks really interesting. Have you personally used lightrun to debug anything directly in production? I saw the video on landing page and very curious to know how it works under the hood.

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

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Post by sachinjain »

isignal wrote: post #52

Folks in the windows ecosystem have had the benefit of Fiddler for more than a decade now. Glad to see a more universal solution.

Some of our customers use Requestly on Windows & Mac to test their sites and that too across browsers. I am glad that there's more demand for a universal solution. We are based on top of electron So it was comparatively easier to build cross-platform solution although yes we have to handle the nuances of all different OS and the versions.

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

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Post by sachinjain »

chrisweekly wrote: post #48
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.

I have seen Inav earlier but never used it. Does it also provide response modification capabilities?
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