Show HN: We’re open-sourcing Requestly - HTTP debugging proxy for Web and Mobile

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Learn how to use Requestly, an open-sourced HTTP debugging proxy for web and mobile apps, to modify and debug HTTP requests and responses

intermediate Published 28 Feb 2023
Action Steps
  1. Install Requestly as a browser extension or desktop app
  2. Configure Requestly to intercept and modify HTTP requests and responses
  3. Use Requestly's Mock Server to simulate API responses
  4. Record browser sessions with Requestly, including video, console logs, and network logs
  5. Modify request URLs to hit different environments using Requestly's rewriting capabilities
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and QA engineers can benefit from using Requestly to debug and test web and mobile applications, improving their development workflow and productivity

Key Insight

💡 Requestly provides full control to developers to modify HTTP requests and responses, making it a powerful tool for debugging and testing web and mobile applications

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🚀 Open-source HTTP debugging proxy Requestly is now available! 🚀 Modify & debug HTTP requests/responses with ease #Requestly #HTTPDebugging

Key Takeaways

Learn how to use Requestly, an open-sourced HTTP debugging proxy for web and mobile apps, to modify and debug HTTP requests and responses

Full Article

Hey HN! We’ve open-sourced Requestly ( https://github.com/requestly/requestly ) - A network debugging proxy for web & mobile apps. Requestly intercepts all HTTP(s) requests & responses and provides full control to developers to modify the request/response like rewriting request URL to hit different environment or returning different response for APIs/scripts. In addition to HTTP(s) interception & modification capabilities, Requestly also offers Mock Server [0] & recording the browser sessions [1] with video, console logs, & network logs stitched together. We use rrweb[2] for this. Requestly is available as browser extension [3] with 175K+ downloads on Chrome Store & as a desktop app [4] on all platforms. Browser extension is written in javascript (slowly migrating to typescript now) and use chrome APIs for interception & modification. Desktop app is written in JS (slowly moving to typescript here too) & use electron as under
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