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View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-02-03 · latest 2025-02-04

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  1. Based on how it works it cannot run as non-root even in principle. https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap?tab=readme-ov-fil... Correction: the readme claims it will work without requiring root, but it does need to manage network…
  2. …group's work. I'm just noting that the code of httptap is authored by a single person (@alexflint) https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/graphs/contributo...
  3. 1. Yes. The following commit taught httptap how to configure Java processes to use its CA cert: https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/commit/4288a89504... 2. How it works is explained in the last two paragraphs of the "How It Works"…
  4. …Does it help if httptap mounts `/etc/ca-certificates` directory with the temporary CA bundle? [1] https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/blob/cb92ee3acfb2... [2] https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/blob/cb92ee3acfb2...
  5. …but it's definitely possible given the underlying approach. If you consider [this line of code]( https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/blob/main/http.go... ) where you have an HTTP request parsed from the <command> that ran and are…
  6. …non-technology projects together. The link to the readme that sevg posted above is a good overview: https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap?tab=readme-ov-fil...
  7. …training retreat and their projects on GitHub. Edit: Oh, I didn’t go to the bottom of the readme https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap?tab=readme-ov-fil...
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    Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program
    story by alexflint · 2025-02-03 · 145 comments