# Decrypt your HTTPS traffic with mitmproxy

DevFeed: [Decrypt your HTTPS traffic with mitmproxy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/decrypt-your-https-traffic-with-mitmproxy-35387.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/software/decrypt-your-https-traffic-with-mitmproxy/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2015-10-26T00:18:04Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/proxy.md>), [TLS (Transport Layer Security)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tls.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>), [osx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/osx.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>)

Tags: [client](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/client.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [https](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/https.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [osx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/osx.md>), [proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proxy.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [tls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tls.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust.md>), [ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on using mitmproxy with iptables as a transparent proxy to decrypt and inspect HTTPS traffic between desktop clients and a server. It explains certificate trust, DNS setup, traffic redirection, and limitations involving WebSockets and HTTP/2.

## Source excerpt

Decrypt, inspect, and debug HTTPS traffic with mitmproxy and iptables.