mitmproxy
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mitmproxy is an interactive, SSLSSLA cryptographic protocol for encrypting network connections, now deprecated in favor of TLS but whose name persists colloquially. Cyber tools reference it when handling HTTPS or other encrypted-channel inspection and termination./TLS-capable intercepting proxy with a console interface for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets.
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Summary
mitmproxy is an open-source intercepting proxy for inspecting and modifying HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSocketWebSocketA protocol that upgrades an HTTP connection into a persistent, full-duplex channel, letting a server push data to a client without repeated polling. Cyber tools use it for real-time event streaming and live command output. traffic, distributed free of charge. It runs as a command-line tool, with console and web interfaces alongside the CLI, and exposes a full command catalogue covering things like flow manipulation, export, and browser control, so traffic can be filtered, captured, and edited from a script or an interactive session. This puts it in the hands of application developers, penetration testers, and anyone debugging TLS-encrypted API traffic rather than SOCSOCA security operations center, the team or function that monitors threats, investigates alerts and coordinates incident response. Its work can be internal, outsourced or shared. analysts monitoring production networks. It sits in the web-app-security space, alongside other traffic-interception tools used for manual testing and debugging. First committed in 2010, it remains active, with 630 contributors and 211 commits in the past year.
mitmproxy is an interactive, SSL/TLS-capable intercepting proxy with a console interface for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets.
How mitmproxy helps
What is my app actually sending and receiving under the TLS on this API call?
decrypts the HTTP/1, HTTP/2, or WebSocket traffic passing through the proxy and shows the full request and response, down to headers and body, in the console or web interface
Can I change a request or response before it reaches the other side?
lets a flow be edited interactively or through a script before it is forwarded, so a header, status code, or body can be altered on the fly to test how client or server reacts
Can I drive the browser itself as part of this test, rather than just watching its traffic?
exposes a browser command namespace that can launch and control a browser instance through the same command catalogue used for flow manipulation
How do I pull one specific exchange out of a long capture to hand to a colleague or another tool?
the export namespace turns a selected flow into formats like code snippets or raw files, so a single request/response pair can be lifted out of a larger session
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Score card
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Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
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Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
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Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
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Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
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Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
- Community health
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Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
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Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
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Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
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Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply
Nine scores for mitmproxy, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
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How this is scored
- Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
- Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
- Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
- Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
- Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
- Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
- Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
- Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.
Release-note detail over time
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Releases
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- August 20211
- November 20201
- April 20201
- December 20191
- June 20181
- May 20181
- February 20181
- February 20171
- December 20161
- October 20161
- April 20161
- February 20161
Project health
Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in mitmproxy/mitmproxy, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.
- Contributors 52 +12 vs prior 12 months
- Maintainers 6 +3 joined · −0 left, last 12 months
- Bus factor 2 committers behind half the commits
- Community-filed 97% of issues opened, last 12 months
- Median time to close 6.8 days first maintainer reply 10 hours
- Open backlog 372 of 3,697 issues ever filed
- Issues opened / month 4 · 0 communitymaintainers
- Open backlog 372
- Contributors / month 1
- Commits / month 1
- Stars 45,090
- bugs 5%
- features 23%
- docs 1%
- other 71%
Counts from the project's public repository and git history; no individuals are identified. Maintainers are the committers covering 80% of the last year's commits. how we measure this
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