Help with HTTP Intercepting Proxy in Ruby?

Question

I have the beginnings of an HTTP Intercepting Proxy written in Ruby:

require \'socket\'                # Get sockets from stdlib

server = TCPServer.open(8080)           


        

Answer 1

First, you would probably be better off building on an existing Ruby HTTP proxy implementation. One such is already available in the Ruby standard library, namely WEBrick::HTTPProxyServer. See for example this related question for an implementation based on that same class: Webrick transparent proxy.

Regarding proxying HTTPS, you can't do much more than just pass the raw bytes. As HTTPS is cryptographically protected, you cannot inspect the contents at the HTTP protocol level. It is just an opaque stream of bytes.