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HTTPS Inspection & MITM

HTTPS Inspection & MITM¶

chiSSL can act as a TLS-terminating proxy to inspect and modify HTTPS requests/responses for debugging.

Capabilities¶

Terminate TLS at listeners (use_tls) with custom certs
Forward to upstreams over HTTP/HTTPS with host/URL rewriting
Capture and display headers and bodies (smart JSON formatting)
Live event streaming and rotating logs per tunnel/listener

Example listener¶

{
  "name": "mitm-proxy",
  "port": 8443,
  "mode": "proxy",
  "target_url": "https://upstream.example.com",
  "use_tls": true
}

Security¶

Only test traffic you own or have permission to inspect
Protect dashboard/API with auth (default)
Rotate certs/tokens; monitor security events