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Unable to get mitmproxy working on Sierra

See original GitHub issue

Problem:

I have been trying to get mitmproxy to work on my macOS sierra and unable to do so.

What have you tried so far?

Installed using Hombrew: brew install mitmproxy.
By running mitmproxy on the terminal it starts the application.
As the docs suggest, I now have to install certificates:
- Went to mitm.it. It shows: If you can see this, traffic is not passing through mitmproxy.
- Googled if somebody else has this issue and followed the manual setup.
Removed ~./mitmproxy folder for a clean run. Restarted mitmproxy. The new cert’s are created.
Copied the entire folder ~./mitmproxy to the Keychain Access. For files with password entered nothing and continued. In the end Keychain Access gives me the results:
```
An error has occurred. Unable to import an item. 
The contents of this item cannot be retrieved.
```
Still I see an entry for mitmproxy certs in Keychain access with the following error with it:
```
 This root certificate is not trusted
```
Double clicking on the certificate -> Trust -> When using the certificate. Changed from Use System defaults to Always trust. The above error of not getting trusted get’s removed.
Restarted mitmproxy. No logs if I go to some website. mitm.it shows the same error.
Restarted Mac for reloading certs, that also didn’t solve the problem.

System information

Mitmproxy version: 2.0.2 (release version) Python version: 3.6.1 Platform: Darwin-16.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit SSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.0e 16 Feb 2017 Mac version: 10.12.4 (‘’, ‘’, ‘’) x86_64

Thoughts

Read the documentation again more closely in case that I might have missed something. In the Quick Setup it’s mentioned

start mitmproxy and configure your target device with the correct proxy settings.

How does one configure my device with correct proxy settings?

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

Graystripe17commented, Jul 24, 2018

Another answer: I forgot to turn off my adblock VPN 😕

2reactions

mhilscommented, May 21, 2017

Thanks for the detailed report. While it’s easy to classify this as a layer 8 error, I think we should ultimately have better docs for this. Or - as Charles and Fiddler do it (I think) - capture the local machine by default.

refs https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy.org/issues/20