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Stuck in the Middle with You: Exploring the Con...

Justin Weiss
September 10, 2016

Stuck in the Middle with You: Exploring the Connections Between Your App and the Web

Our apps are becoming more complicated and more distributed. We’re extracting APIs and handling callbacks and pings from the services we depend on. We’re using our data and services from different clients, like rich JavaScript applications and mobile apps. And as we fling our logic into more places, it’s harder to see what’s actually going on between them. If you’re working in applications that have become a forest of APIs and services, or you’ve ever said, “I really wish I could just see what kind of data this server thinks I’m handing it, and what I’m getting back,” this talk is for you. With a few tools and some simple techniques, you’ll watch the data go from your apps to your APIs and see your responses, callbacks, and pings come back.

Justin Weiss

September 10, 2016
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  1. Stuck in the Middle with You Exploring the Connections Between

    Your App and the Web Justin Weiss @justinweiss
  2. 1. That can't happen. 2. That doesn't happen on my

    machine. 3. That shouldn't happen. 4. Why does that happen? 5. Oh, I see. 6. How did that ever work? 1 1 http://web.archive.org/web/20051027173148/http://www.68k.org/~jrc/old-blog/ archives/000198.html @justinweiss
  3. Where are we now? → Send requests → Monitor requests

    and responses → Receive requests @justinweiss
  4. What do we need? The client must be capable of

    interacting with the resource owner's user-agent (typically a web browser) and capable of receiving incoming requests (via redirection) from the authorization server. — OAuth2 RFC8 8 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-4.1 @justinweiss
  5. → Send requests: curl, Postman, Paw → Monitor: mitmproxy, Fiddler,

    Charles Proxy → Receive requests: requestb.in, webmock.io, ngrok @justinweiss
  6. → Send requests: curl, Postman, Paw → Monitor: mitmproxy, Fiddler,

    Charles Proxy → Receive requests: requestb.in, webmock.io, ngrok @justinweiss