httptoolkit-desktop vs httptoolkit-server

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httptoolkit-desktop		httptoolkit-server
	Project
1	Mentions	3
567	Stars	419
2.8%	Growth	4.5%
8.0	Activity	8.9
16 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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httptoolkit-desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of httptoolkit-desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-11.

Signing app for MacOS is like alien cryptographic language
2 projects | /r/electronjs | 11 Jan 2022

My whole app is open source. Here's the codebase for the Electron wrapper, it's a separate repo that's largely independent of the rest of my app, so it's relatively easy to look through for yourself: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-desktop/.

httptoolkit-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of httptoolkit-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-20.

HTTP Toolkit
24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2021

I'm the author. I'm not a Go developer though, can you give me an example I can reproduce for `go get` that doesn't work for you?
For the terminal, there's a few mechanisms, but environment variables are the catch-all there, yes (full list: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/blob/maste...). Those do work for most cases, but it is absolutely not a hard guarantee for applications that actively ignore standard proxy configuration (handling that is very hard, and definitely out of scope here).
Go does generally observes `http_proxy` correctly by default in other cases I've tested, so this vert simple code from the test suite is automatically intercepted for example: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/blob/maste.... Very happy to look into any failing cases you can share.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing httptoolkit-desktop and httptoolkit-server you can also consider the following projects:

gon - Sign, notarize, and package macOS CLI tools and applications written in any language. Available as both a CLI and a Go library.

mockttp - Powerful friendly HTTP mock server & proxy library

httptoolkit-ui - The UI of HTTP Toolkit

mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

osx-sign - Codesign Electron macOS apps

frida - Clone this repo to build Frida

clobbr - ⚡️ A tool to check the speed and resilience of your API endpoints against multiple parallel or sequence requests.

Proxyman - Modern. Native. Delightful Web Debugging Proxy for macOS, iOS, and Android ⚡️

Postwoman - 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

mockoon - Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source.

httptoolkit - HTTP Toolkit is a beautiful & open-source tool for debugging, testing and building with HTTP(S) on Windows, Linux & Mac :tada: Open an issue here to give feedback or ask for help.

graftcp - A flexible tool for redirecting a given program's TCP traffic to SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy.