Dear StackOverflow Community,
I am looking to get access to all HTTP traffic on my machine (my windows machine - not a server). From what I understand having a local proxy through which all traffic routes is the way to go. I have been Googling but failed to find any resources (in respect to Ruby) to help me out. Any tips or links are much appreciated.
Thank you,
Ice
Is having a proxy built in Ruby the important point here? Or just to "get access to all HTTP traffic on your machine"? If the latter, there's a free program called HTTP Sniffer and Analyzer that can supposedly do this. I have not used it but I have seen it get some positive reviews. There are several other such programs, though most seem to be paid. On OS X, Linux, etc, you can use the in-built tcpdump in clever ways to get a similar effect.
There's an HTTP Proxy in WEBrick (part of Ruby stdlib) and here's an implementation example: http://90kts.com/blog/2008/httpwatch-a-free-alternative-using-ruby/
If you like living on the edge there's also em-proxy by Ilya Grigorik. http://github.com/igrigorik/em-proxy/tree/master http://www.igvita.com/2009/04/20/ruby-proxies-for-scale-and-monitoring/ It does seem to need some tweaking to solve your problem.