Use mitmproxy instead of browsermob-proxy

[kazurayam]

25 revealed that browsermob-proxy does not work well with WebDrverManager due to a version collision of the dependency.

Unfortunately the lightbody/browsermob-proxy project is not actively maintained (it is Nov 2023 today). The latest version v2.1.5 was release Sept 2017, 6 years ago! The project has a lot of open issues, and unwatched pull requests.

It would be an idea to use another proxy project.

In the issue list of browermob-proxy https://github.com/lightbody/browsermob-proxy/pull/788 someonementioned

• https://github.com/browserup/browserup-proxy

But the browserup-proxy project already announced it is deprecated. They mentioned

• https://github.com/appium/mitmproxy-java

Let me have a look at the mitmproxy.

What does the acronym "mitm" means? --- possibly Man In The Middle, I suppose.

[kazurayam]

The mitmproxy looks good, but it is a Python program. I would try it personally sometime in future. But mitmproxy would not be suitable for the book "Selenium WebDriver with Java" as it drops out of the coverage of the book.

[kazurayam]

I have succeeded to dump a HAR file from a JUnit5 test using WebDriverManager + Chrome + mitmdump command

https://github.com/kazurayam/mitmproxy-lesson/blob/develop/app/src/test/java/io/github/bonigarcia/webdriver/juipter/ch09/performance/CapturingNetworkTrafficChromeJupiterTest.java

I would write a documentation how to prepare the envronment and how to write a test.

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I feel that the mitmproxy project is active, so that much more reliable than BrowserMob Proxy.