Forwarder Proxy

Forwarder is a production-ready, fast MITM proxy with PAC support. It's suitable for debugging, intercepting and manipulating HTTP traffic. It's used as a core component of Sauce Labs Sauce Connect Proxy. It is a forward proxy, which means it proxies traffic from clients to servers (e.g. browsers to websites), and supports CONNECT requests. It can proxy:

• HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2 requests
• WebSockets (both HTTP and HTTPS)
• Server Sent Events (SSE)
• TCP traffic (e.g. SMTP, IMAP, etc.)

Documentation

The documentation is available at forwarder-proxy.io.

Development

Quick Start

• Install Docker or Podman, for Podman configuration see this guide
• Install Docker Compose
• Install make
• Run make install-dependencies

Linting

• Run make fmt to auto format code
• Run make lint to lint code
• Edit .golangci.yml to change linting rules

Building Devel Images

Run make update-devel-image to build the devel docker image.

Testing

• Run make test to run Go unit tests
• Run make -C e2e run-e2e to run e2e tests, more details in e2e/README.md

Updating tools versions

All tools versions are defined in .version file. To update a version, edit the file and create a merge request. CI will run and update the CI image with the new version.