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Hacking the Tonal - Proxying, Intercepting + Debugging Traffic?

Sep 18, 2023
35:32
Snipd AI
Learn how to intercept and debug traffic from your devices, explore different applications for proxying, understand HTTP and SSL traffic, and discover the limitations of browser dev tools in this podcast.
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Quick takeaways

  • Developers can intercept and debug network traffic using tools like Charles, Proxy Man, and HTTP Toolkit to gain insights into data being sent and received by applications.
  • Installing SSL certificates on devices enables the interception and analysis of encrypted traffic, while SSL pinning can be used by applications to prevent traffic interception.

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Proxing, intercepting, and debugging traffic

The episode discusses the concept of proxying, intercepting, and debugging traffic on networks. Utilizing tools like Charles, Proxy Man, and HTTP Toolkit, developers can gain insights into the data being sent and received by different applications. Traffic interception allows for monitoring APIs, analyzing cookies, tokens, and authorization keys, and even modifying requests and responses. The episode also highlights the potential use cases for traffic interception, such as creating custom workout interfaces, reverse engineering private APIs, and analyzing streaming data.

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