----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw@arctus.nl>
An:      Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum:   16.01.2014 21:40
Betreff: [Pywikipedia-l] mitmproxy: sniffing pywikibot traffic to debug
        network issues

> Hello all, mainly co-developers,
>
> mitmproxy is a tool that allows you to sniff network traffic -- which is
> incredibly useful for debugging pywikibot network issues. Of course, there
> are other tools to do this (e.g. ethereal), but those are not usable
> anymore now that the WMF switched to HTTPS. In addition, mitmproxy allows
> you to /manipulate/ the traffic, which can be useful for tricking pywikibot
> into thinking there are network issues.
>
> This weekend, I finally got mitmproxy to work for pywikibot/core -- the
> version available in ubuntu did not correctly forge SSL certificates yet.
> For other interested developers, I put up a guide at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pywikibot/mitmproxy
>
> Unfortunately, the internet seems to suggest it doesn't work that well for
> Windows users. http://honeyproxy.org/ is supposed to be better, but I
> haven't tested it.
>
> Merlijn
>

Would this help to investigate that bot hanging problem in core?

xqt

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