From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-12-03T06:24:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Using an HTTP proxy to record web traffic

Dan Kohn wrote:

>As part of debugging WWW::Mechanize, I realized that the best way to
>compare what my browser is doing to what mechanize is doing would be to
>compare their HTTP transactions incoming and outgoing.  What I want is
>an HTTP proxy that can record the transactions and also supports SSL.
>  
>
MouseHole is a scriptable proxy.  <http://mousehole.rubyforge.org/>

A script to record traffic would a cinch.  Basically,

1. Download MouseHole from the above link.  Instructions for running it 
are there as well.
2. Add a script named `proxyrecord.user.rb' to your 
~/.mouseHole/userScripts/ directory.
    Contains:

       MouseHole.script do
           name "Proxy Record"
           namespace "http://yourdomain.com/"
           description "Records all traffic, very snoopy."
           include_match %r!http://.*!
           version "1.0"

           rewrite do |req, res|
               # store contents of `req' and `res' in the database or a
               # log file or something
           end
       end
3. In your browser, setup MouseHole as your proxy (http://127.0.0.1:37004/)
4. Visit http://127.0.0.1:37004/ and activate the Proxy Record script by 
checking its box.

As for SSL, I don't think proxies can actually intercept unencrypted 
SSL.  It uses the CONNECT method.

_why