Replay Requests

Another powerful feature of mitmproxy is replaying previous flows. Two types of replays are supported:

Client-side Replay: mitmproxy replays previous client requests, i.e., sends the same request to the server again.
Server-side Replay: mitmproxy replays server responses for requests that match an earlier recorded request.

In this tutorial we focus on the more common use case of client-side replays. See the docs for more info on server-side replay.

Video Content

Welcome to the mitmproxy tutorial. In this lesson we cover replaying requests.

Let’s generate a request that we can replay. We use curl in a separate terminal.

We now want to replay the this request.

Put the focus (>>) on the request that should be replayed. This is already the case in our example.

Press r to replay the request.

Note that no new rows are added for replayed flows, but the existing row is updated.

Every time you press r, mitmproxy sends this request to the server again and updates the flow.

You can also modify a flow before replaying it.

It works as shown in the previous lesson, by pressing e.

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