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It's fascinating how many of these tools exist. Some users have already posted similar tools in this thread, here's a YC backed one [0]. [0] https://www.ycombi

by rhtgrg 5y ago

It's fascinating how many of these tools exist. Some users have already posted similar tools in this thread, here's a YC backed one [0]. [0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/requestly https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/requestly

zerkten 5y ago
It's unfortunate that they often fail to give you anything that wasn't possible with Fiddler over 10 years ago. There is much potential for automating the things that folks are doing in these tools repeatedly, especially things that devs are doing for other stakeholders like support teams. Obviously security folks have an interest in these tools, but they generally understand the potential and exploit it more effectively than the generalists.
cute_boi 5y ago
httptoolkit is opensource and you can see contribute, look source code etc which is automatically superior to me.
sachinjain024 5y ago
Hey, This is Sachin - founder @ Requestly. At Requestly, We have solved primarily the problems of web developers often needing the capabilities to test local scripts in production (or staging environment), modifying headers, host scripts online. Even today, tools like Charles, Fiddler fail to solve simple use cases of Redirection, Headers, Simulating Delays, Scripts Injection in a simple user-friendly way. After all, developer experience also matters :-) Also, Setting up the desktop app vs the browser extension, the difference is way huge. It's way easier to work with browser extension when it comes to your intercept & modify browser traffic. As of Now, We have started to get requests to scale Requestly to other platforms to debug Mobile & Desktop app traffic too hence we have recently started to work on the desktop app (https://requestly.io/desktop https://requestly.io/desktop) (It's still in beta but usable). Here's a video a friend created sometime back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUqlA9j9Lx4&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUqlA9j9Lx4&t=1s which explains how you can modify headers using Requestly desktop app. We'll try our best to solve the problems with Requestly that still exists in Charles, Fiddler and similar tools.

by rhtgrg 5y ago

zerkten 5y ago

It's unfortunate that they often fail to give you anything that wasn't possible with Fiddler over 10 years ago. There is much potential for automating the things that folks are doing in these tools repeatedly, especially things that devs are doing for other stakeholders like support teams. Obviously security folks have an interest in these tools, but they generally understand the potential and exploit it more effectively than the generalists.

cute_boi 5y ago

httptoolkit is opensource and you can see contribute, look source code etc which is automatically superior to me.

sachinjain024 5y ago

Hey, This is Sachin - founder @ Requestly. At Requestly, We have solved primarily the problems of web developers often needing the capabilities to test local scripts in production (or staging environment), modifying headers, host scripts online. Even today, tools like Charles, Fiddler fail to solve simple use cases of Redirection, Headers, Simulating Delays, Scripts Injection in a simple user-friendly way. After all, developer experience also matters :-) Also, Setting up the desktop app vs the browser extension, the difference is way huge. It's way easier to work with browser extension when it comes to your intercept & modify browser traffic. As of Now, We have started to get requests to scale Requestly to other platforms to debug Mobile & Desktop app traffic too hence we have recently started to work on the desktop app (https://requestly.io/desktop https://requestly.io/desktop) (It's still in beta but usable). Here's a video a friend created sometime back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUqlA9j9Lx4&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUqlA9j9Lx4&t=1s which explains how you can modify headers using Requestly desktop app. We'll try our best to solve the problems with Requestly that still exists in Charles, Fiddler and similar tools.