On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Nachricht ---- > Von: Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> > An: Pywikipedia discussion list <[email protected]> > Datum: 16.01.2014 21:40 > Betreff: [Pywikipedia-l] mitmproxy: sniffing pywikibot traffic to debug > network issues > > > Hello all, mainly co-developers, > > > > mitmproxy is a tool that allows you to sniff network traffic -- which is > > incredibly useful for debugging pywikibot network issues. Of course, > there > > are other tools to do this (e.g. ethereal), but those are not usable > > anymore now that the WMF switched to HTTPS. In addition, mitmproxy allows > > you to /manipulate/ the traffic, which can be useful for tricking > pywikibot > > into thinking there are network issues. > > > > This weekend, I finally got mitmproxy to work for pywikibot/core -- the > > version available in ubuntu did not correctly forge SSL certificates yet. > > For other interested developers, I put up a guide at > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pywikibot/mitmproxy > > > > Unfortunately, the internet seems to suggest it doesn't work that well > for > > Windows users. http://honeyproxy.org/ is supposed to be better, but I > > haven't tested it. > > > > Merlijn > > > > > Would this help to investigate that bot hanging problem in core? > > xqt > > I think so, I'll start looking at the bug via this tool tomorrow
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