mitm-server

Overview

mitm-server exports a function that opens a proxy server. This server can be used as a system level proxy, or by a specific browser or application. Every request made through this proxy will be passed to the handler function as a req res pair. The handler can then write an arbitrary response. The proxy server is designed to work with https connections, and therefore needs to be initialized with a root certificate. This root certificate is used to generate certs for each https domain. For https requests to work correctly, the request application (or os) will need to either ignore ssl errors, or trust the root cert used by the proxy.

Example

var MITMServer = require('mitm-server')
var https = require('https')
var http = require('http')
var url = require('url')

var options = {
  certDir: './cert-cache',
  caCertPath: './cacert.pem',
  caKeyPath: './cakey.pem'
}

var server = new MITMServer(options, handler)

server.listen(8081)

function handler (req, res, secure) {
  if (Math.random() > .5) {
    res.writeHead(500)
    res.end('random 500s!')
    return
  }

  var module = secure ? https : http
  var port = req.headers.host.split(':')[1]
  var reqOptions = {
    method: req.method,
    port: port ? parseInt(port, 10) : secure ? 443 : 80,
    hostname: req.headers.host.split(':')[0],
    headers: req.headers,
    path: url.parse(req.url).path
  }

  req.pipe(module.request(reqOptions, onResponse))

  function onResponse (response) {
    res.writeHead(response.statusCode, response.headers)
    response.pipe(res)
  }
}

Generating a Root CA

openssl genrsa -out ca/ca.key 1024
openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -extensions v3_ca -keyout ca/cakey.pem -out ca/cacert.pem -nodes -subj \"/C=US/ST=STATE/L=CITY/O=ORG/CN=CERT_NAME\"
echo \"02\" > ca/cacert.srl

API

new MITMServer(options, handler) -> mitmServerInstance

options

• certDir (required): path to the folder where certs will be created and stored
• caCertPath (required): path to the root certificate used to generate new certs for https requests.
• caKeyPath (required): path the the root certificate key
• serverTimeout (optional): an https server is created for each domain accessed via https. This value determines how long a server will stay open (in ms) without any activity.
• port (optional): port for the main proxy server, if passed constructor will call server.listen

handler

handler will be passed 3 arguments for each inbound request.

• req: the request object
• res: the response object
• secure: a boolean which indicates if the request was made using https

instance methods

listen(port)

call once with the port the proxy should be listening on. If port is passed in options object during server construction, the constructor will call listen, and this method should not be called again.

• port (required): an unused port, some ports (eg. 80) will require elevated privileges. Passing 0 will assign a random unused port.

instance events

upgrade

emitted anytime a proxied request requests an upgrade. This request will not be passed to the handler. If this event is not listened for, the request will be closed. This event is emitted with the same 3 arguments as a node HTTP server's upgrade event, as well as a 4th secure argument to indicate if the request was made using https.

event arguments

• request: the request that requested the upgrade
• socket: the socket for the request
• head: a buffer of data already read off of the socket
• ssl: a boolean which indicates if this is was a secure connection

error

all internal errors will be emitted on the proxy instance

log

all log messages will be emitted with 2 arguments as log events

• level: will be one of ['error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug']
• msg: the log message

log:{level}

There is also an event for each log level that will only emit log messages for messages at that level or higher.

instance properties

servers

an object who's keys are domains, and properties are the https servers that are currently open.

httpServer

the main http that all connections pass through

Contributing

You are welcome to send pull requests to us - however, by doing so you agree that you are granting New Relic a non-exclusive, non-revokable, no-cost license to use the code, algorithms, patents, and ideas in that code in our products if we so choose. You also agree the code is provided as-is and you provide no warranties as to its fitness or correctness for any purpose.

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute to this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License See LICENSE.md for the full license.