Python Intercept Web Traffic from Browser

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple web filtering app in python. The way I want to do this is to monitor traffic on ports tcp 80/443 (http) and if there is traffic, I want to che

Answer 1

You need to write a web proxy, and set your web clients proxy server to http://localhost:8000/ (or whatever the proxy is listening on).

Your web client will then send HTTP like this:

GET http://www.google.com

to your proxy which it must then rewrite as:

GET /

and send on to www.google.com, getting the response and then sending it back on the original socket to the client. Note that explanation is massively simplified.

Anyway, its all standard stuff and I suspect Python web proxies exist already for you to hack on.

Edit: http://proxies.xhaus.com/python/