Reverse Proxy

1. What's it?

Reverse Proxy would create a local WebServer that transparently proxies your traffic to a remote server. By doing this way, Proxyman can capture and log your traffic.

Reverse Proxy is useful when you are working on a client that doesn't support HTTP/HTTPS Proxy or the HTTP Proxy config is too complicated.

For instance, the majority of Command-Line apps would not respect the system HTTP/HTTPS proxies, so Proxyman could not capture its traffic. To resolve it, you have to either:

• Explicitly config an HTTP/HTTPS Proxy. It's complicated and depends on the network library you are using. Check out this troubleshooting to know further.

• Use Reverse Proxy.

Reverse Proxy is available on Proxyman 2.29.0+.

2. Benefit

• Reverse Proxy feature: You can connect to Proxyman local WebServer, and it will forward your traffic to the remote host. No need to set up an HTTP/HTTPS Proxy on your client.

• Import Reverse Proxy Setting from Charles Proxy.

• Preserve Host in Header.

• Automatically select the available port when creating a new entry.

• Able to use Breakpoint, Map Local, Scripting for Reverse Proxy traffic 💯.

3. How to use

1. Access Reverse Proxy tool from Tools Menu -> Reverse Proxy

2. Create a new entry by entering a Remote Host and Remote Port. For the Local port, Proxyman would select automatically. You can change to a different port, but it must be available.

3. Save.

4. On your client application, change the URL to http://localhost:<local_port> (e.g. http://localhost:10000)

5. Make a request and inspect the traffic from the Proxyman app.