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Menace
Menace

Reputation: 227

Can Fiddler change the return from Python Requests Module?

If I make a request in Python 3 to grab the text of a webpage (Via Requests module), is it possible that someone using fiddler could change the response?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 168

Answers (1)

zinc
zinc

Reputation: 11

short answer: Yes.

a bit longer: fiddler is an HTTP proxy, so if someone wants to intercept your traffic with it he needs to either:
a) configure it as a proxy in your code
b) use some program on your computer that sends your traffic to fiddler
c) use some program on your router that sends your traffic to fiddler

notice that only opening fiddler on your computer isn't enough for the script traffic to go through it, you need to configure it as a proxy in your requests at the code (for example: requests.get('http://example.org', proxies=proxies)).

Upvotes: 1

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