On 12/03/12 16:11, Steve Chapel wrote:
Well, the HTTPS proxy actually not an assignment. Getting the HTTPS proxy working is just the starting point we need before we can do any research, and at this point the research project is due in four weeks. If you can point to some twisted code for an HTTPS proxy or documentation for how to write one, that won't be giving us undue help but will enable us to have a chance to get the research done at all. At this point, I'm thinking of using a regular Python program because I found a MITM proxy already written, so we could start the research right away.
I got curious about how difficult this would be, and spent a bit of time on it last night. See here: https://github.com/philmayers/txsslmitm This is MIT licensed, as per Twisted. It is really a proof-of-concept, but it does work in my tests. I'm impressed how few lines of code it takes in Twisted to do this; it really is an awesome framework!