I am using little proxy https://github.com/adamfisk/LittleProxy to create a test proxy which returns some predefined html content for a given url. Code for same:
HttpProxyServer server =
DefaultHttpProxyServer.bootstrap()
.withPort(8080)
.withFiltersSource(new HttpFiltersSourceAdapter() {
public HttpFilters filterRequest(HttpRequest originalRequest, ChannelHandlerContext ctx) {
return new HttpFiltersAdapter(originalRequest) {
@Override
public HttpResponse clientToProxyRequest(HttpObject httpObject) {
// My custom implementataion to return the locally stored content based in input url
String content = getContent(request.getUri())
final ByteBuf buffer = Unpooled.copiedBuffer(content, CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
HttpResponse response = new DefaultFullHttpResponse(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, status, buffer);
HttpHeaders.setKeepAlive(response, false);
HttpHeaders.setHeader(response, "Referrer-Policy", "no-referrer");
return response;
}
@Override
public HttpObject serverToProxyResponse(HttpObject httpObject) {
return httpObject;
}
};
}
})
.start();
I am calling the proxy for a url using below code :
public HttpResponse performHttpGet(String url, String proxyHost, int port) throws Exception {
CloseableHttpClient http = HttpClients.custom().setProxy(new HttpHost(proxyHost, port)).build();
HttpGet get = new HttpGet(url);
return http.execute(get);
}
For http urls the http get call is working fine but for https urls the call is failing since it makes a CONNECT request for https urls. Is there any way to return the same response for https urls as well in little proxy ?
How can I use MITM for this use case where I want to send some predefined content for https urls instead of making actual call to web server.