mitm - Load Hacker News from local file

mitm-hackernews-local-proxy.py

"""
Load Hacker News from local file.

Local file is updated via a different process (curl-ing the site)
Other process is run every 60 seconds.
"""
from mitmproxy import http
from mitmproxy import ctx


def request(flow: http.HTTPFlow) -> None:
    flow.request.query["mitmproxy"] = "rocks"
    if 'news.ycombinator.com' in flow.request.pretty_url:
        name = '/Users/wferrell/Desktop/ycombinator.html'
        with open(name) as html_file:
            data = html_file.read()
        flow.response = http.HTTPResponse.make(
            200,  # (optional) status code
            data,  # (optional) content
            {"Content-Type": "text/html"}  # (optional) headers
        )


def response(flow: http.HTTPFlow) -> None:
    ctx.log.info("Flow matches filter:")