devproxy

What is devproxy?

devproxy is intended to be an easily configurable forward HTTP proxy for web application development.

It has the following features:

• URL rewriting

If you want to get your browser to access to the upstream HTTP server listening on 127.0.0.1:3000 by a request to http://example.com, the configuration should look as follows:

hosts:
    http://example.com:
      - ^(/.*)$: http://127.0.0.1:3000$1

This can be done since the name resolution is done in devproxy, which is configured to map any request for http://example.com to http://127.0.0.1:3000.

• Transparent TLS termination / wrapping (simulation of an SSL/TLS-enabled environment)

You can also make it possible to direct the request to https://example.com/ to the upstream by adding the configuration like the following:

hosts:
    http://example.com:
      - ^(/.*)$: http://127.0.0.1:3000$1
    https://example.com:
      - ^(/.*)$: http://127.0.0.1:3000$1

Even though you don't have a valid certificate prepared for example.com, devproxy automatically generates it on the fly. However, it is necessary to set up the private PKI for issuing bogus server certificates and let your browser trust the PKI's root CA certificate. DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK. The CA for issuing bogus server certificates is configured as follows:

tls:     ca:       cert: testca.rsa.crt.pem       key: testca.rsa.key.pem   hosts:     ...

• Request header modification

You can add / remove arbitrary request HTTP headers for the request being rewritten:

hosts:
    http://example.com:
      - ^(/.*)$: http://127.0.0.1:3000$1
        headers:
          X-Forwarded-Proto: https
          Removed-Header: null

• Testing FastCGI-enabled upstream

You can forward the request to a FastCGI-enabled upstream:

hosts:
    http://example.com:
      - ^(((?:/.)/[^/]+\.php)(/.*|$)): fastcgi://localhost$1
        headers:
          X-Cgi-Script-Filename: /var/www/document/root$2
          X-Cgi-Script-Name: $2
          X-Cgi-Path-Info: $3

• Serving files on the filesystem

You can also serve the local files by specifying file: scheme as an upstream:

hosts:
    http://example.com:
      - ^(/.*)?/$: file:///some-document-root$1/index.html
      - ^(/.*)$: file:///some-document-root$1

WARNING: this feature does such naive path translation that is easily exploitable for path traversals beyond the document root. Never expose the server to public when it is used.

file_tx:
    root: /var/empty
    mimetypefile: /usr/share/mime/globs
    mimetypefile_format: xdg-globs

Toplevel file_tx section configures the file transport.

* root (string, optional)

Specifies the base directory for resolving a absolute path when a relative form of file URI yields from the match.

* mimetypefile (string, optional)

Specifies the path to the MIME-type-to-extension mapping file used to deduce a MIME type from the file's extension. devproxy will use Go's standard mime.TypeForExtension() function when unspecified.

* mimetypefile_format (string, optional)

Specifies the format for the MIME type file. Accepted values are apache and xdg-globs.

• Proxy chaining

You can direct outgoing requests to another proxy server. This is useful in a restricted network environment.

proxy:
    http: http://anoother-proxy-server:8080
    https: http://another-proxy-server:8080

excluded directive can be used when you want to prevent requests for the specific hosts from being proxied.

excluded:      - 127.0.0.1     - localhost     - intranet.example.com

Or inversely, in case of whitelisting:

included:
    - intranet.example.com
    - foobar.example.com

TLS proxy can also be specified.

proxy:
    http: https://anoother-proxy-server:8443
    https: https://another-proxy-server:8443
    tls:
      ca_certs: cabundle.crt.pem
      certs:
        - cert: client_crt.pem # this can be either the filename of a PEM-formatted certificate or a PEM string itself.
          key: client_key.pem # this can be either the filename of a PEM-formatted private key or a PEM string itself.

Installation

go get github.com/moriyoshi/devproxy

Using devproxy

$GOPATH/bin/devproxy -l listenaddr configurationfile
ex: $GOPATH/bin/devproxy -l 127.0.0.1:8080 config.yml

And Adjust your browser's proxy settings to what is exactly given to -l option.

Setting up the private PKI

openssl genrsa 2048 > testca.rsa.key.pem
openssl req -new -key testca.rsa.key.pem -out testca.rsa.csr.pem
openssl x509 -req -in testca.rsa.csr.pem -signkey testca.rsa.key.pem -days 3650 -sha256 -extfile x509.ini -extensions CA -out testca.rsa.crt.pem

x509.ini:

[CA] basicConstraints=critical,CA:TRUE,pathlen:1 keyUsage=digitalSignature,keyCertSign,cRLSign

Configuration file example

tls:
  client:
    verify: true
  ca:
    cert: testca.rsa.crt.pem
    key: testca.rsa.key.pem
hosts:   http://api.example.com:     - ^(/v1/.*)$: http://localhost:8000$1     - ^(/v2/.*)$: http://localhost:8001$1   http://example.com:     - ^(/asset.*)$: http://localhost:8002$1     - ^(/.*)$: http://localhost:8003$1