peek reverse proxy

Sometimes you do not have a network traffic interceptor, proxy such as burp or F12 debug tools to inspect requests. This simple reverse proxy is a simple solution to that.

DISCLAIMER: do not use this as a production ready thing, was never designed for this

Purpose

Sometimes there are is just that one environment where you can't have a debug mode.

If you've mocked an API just to look at the request sent fear no more. This client lets you host a http listener to peek into request details such as bodies, queries, headers and proxy the request to the destination at the same time.

Usage

Install

You can use this crate via several distributions:

• cargo install via crates.io
• cargo install from source
• docker, podman or any OCI container runtime
• cargo binstall
• binaries from gh releases

Cargo binstall

To install this crate via cargo-binstall:

cargo binstall peek-reverse-proxy

Cargo

To install this crate via cargo:

cargo install peek-reverse-proxy

From Source

git clone https://github.com/somehowchris/peek-reverse-proxy.git

cd peek-reverse-proxy

cargo install --path .

Docker/Containers

docker pull ghcr.io/somehowchris/peek-reverse-proxy:0.1.12

Run it

Installed binary

Once installed, you can run it via:

peek-reverse-proxy

Configuration

Env variables allow you to configure things to your needs:

• HOST_ADDRESS: address on which to listen on i.e. 0.0.0.0:8080
• DESTINATION_URL: destination url including host and scheme i.e. https://www.google.com
• (optional) LOG_LEVEL: level of logs to log off, debug, normal, critical, defaults to normal
• (optional) PRINT_STYLE: print style for logs, either json (outputs everything in json style), plain (outputs everything in standard log formats but has no json field formatting), pretty (just as plain, but formats outputs of json fields with serde_jsons pretty option), defaults to pretty

For example:

export HOST_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:8080"
export DESTINATION_URL="https://www.google.com"
export PRINT_STYLE="json"
export LOG_LEVEL="normal"

peek-reverse-proxy

Docker

docker run -e HOST_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:8080" -e DESTINATION_URL="https://www.google.com" -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/somehowchris/peek-reverse-proxy:0.1.12