Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

httptap is a process-scoped http tracer that you can run without root priveleges. You can run `httptap <command>` where <command> is a linux program and you get a trace of http/https requests and responses in standard output:

    httptap -- python -c "import requests; requests.get('https://monasticacademy.org')"
    ---> GET https://monasticacademy.org/
    <--- 308 https://monasticacademy.org/ (15 bytes)
    ---> GET https://www.monasticacademy.org/
    <--- 200 https://www.monasticacademy.org/ (5796 bytes)

It works by running <command> in an isolated network namespace. It has its own TCP/IP stack (for which it uses gVisor). It is not an HTTP proxy and so does not rely on <command> being configured to use an HTTP proxy. It decrypts TLS traffic by generating a CA on the fly. It won't install any iptables rules or make other global system changes.

can it modify requests or responses? with the current web getting increasingly user-hostile a need for tool like this was never more apparent

especially if it doesn't require proxy configuration