MImichalmatczuk·Feb 23, 2024Submission
Go read /etc/hosts with net.lookupStaticHost()
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forwarder
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saucelabs / forwarder
forwarder
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.
3Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
290GitHub stars
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What it is
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.
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What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.
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HN mentions by week5 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2023-12-20 18:34:55 UTC to 2024-02-23 15:56:34 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 18 | 2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Dec 25 | 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 8 | 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15 | 2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 22 | 2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 29 | 2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 5 | 2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 12 | 2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 19 | 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesGood point. We are getting stated.
Here's draft proposal for 1.3 to add this feature https://github.com/saucelabs/forwarder/issues/584.
The idea is to allow users work in JavaScript with Go http.Request and http.Request. Interop between Go and JS in Goja is very good.
In Show HN: Forwarder – FOSS MITM proxy written in GoSent a PR to fix that https://github.com/saucelabs/forwarder/pull/617.
In Show HN: Forwarder – FOSS MITM proxy written in GoGreat! Here is the feedback: https://github.com/saucelabs/forwarder/issues/616
In Show HN: Forwarder – FOSS MITM proxy written in GoFor those with blocking rules around newly registered DNS: https://github.com/saucelabs/forwarder
In Show HN: Forwarder – FOSS MITM proxy written in Go