[whirlwin]

Here's a concrete scenario for you: Say you are in a team of 10 developers with a huge codebase that has accumulated over 5+ years. If you're new in the team, and you need to understand when a specific HTTP header is sent, or just snoop the value in the payload you otherwise wouldn't be able to see.

[ricardo81]

Snooping traffic isn't new though, so what's specific about this tool and Python.

[whirlwin]

How would you snoop outgoing HTTPS traffic otherwise easily anyway? mitmproxy requires some work to set up