README.md

Alpha Software

This software is still in alpha state. In the sense that the API may not be stable.

I plan to stabilize the base module (package goproxy) within a month or so, after taking user's feedback into account.

Introduction

Package goproxy provides a customizable HTTP proxy library for Go (golang),

It supports regular HTTP proxy, HTTPS through CONNECT, and "hijacking" HTTPS connection using "Man in the Middle" style attack.

The intent of the proxy, is to be usable with reasonable amount of traffic yet, customizable and programable.

The proxy itself is simply a net/http handler.

Why not Fiddler2?

Fiddler is an excellent software with similar intent. However, Fiddler is not as customable as goproxy intend to be. The main difference is, Fiddler is not intended to be used as a real proxy.

A possible use case that suits goproxy but not Fiddler, is, gathering statisitics on page load times for a certain website over a week. With goproxy you could ask all your users to set their proxy to a dedicated machine running a goproxy server. Fiddler is a GUI app not designed to be ran like a server for multiple users.

A taste of goproxy

To get a taste of goproxy, a basic HTTP/HTTPS transparent proxy

import (
    "github.com/elazarl/goproxy"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    proxy := goproxy.NewProxyHttpServer()
    proxy.Verbose = true
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", proxy))
}

This line will add X-GoProxy: yxorPoG-X header to all requests sent through the proxy

proxy.OnRequest().DoFunc(
    func(r *http.Request,ctx *goproxy.ProxyCtx)(*http.Request,*http.Response) {
        r.Header.Set("X-GoProxy","yxorPoG-X")
        return r,nil
    }
)

DoFunc will process all incoming requests to the proxy. It will add a header to the request and return it. The proxy will send the modified request.

Note that we returned nil value as the response. Have we returned a response, goproxy would have discarded the request and sent the new response to the client.

In order to refuse connections to reddit at work time

proxy.OnRequest(goproxy.DstHostIs("www.reddit.com")).DoFunc(
    func(r *http.Request,ctx *goproxy.ProxyCtx)(*http.Request,*http.Response) {
        if h,_,_ := time.Now().Clock(); h >= 8 && h <= 17 {
            return r,goproxy.NewResponse(r,
                    goproxy.ContentTypeText,http.StatusForbidden,
                    "Don't waste your time!")
        }
        return r,nil
})

DstHostIs returns a ReqCondition, that is a function receiving a Request and returning a boolean we will only process requests that matches the condition. DstHostIs("www.reddit.com") will return a ReqCondition accepting only requests directed to "www.reddit.com".

DoFunc will recieve a function that will preprocess the request. We can change the request, or return a response. If the time is between 8:00am and 17:00pm, we will neglect the request, and return a precanned text response saying "do not waste your time".

See additional examples in the examples directory.