aspace_mitm_proxy

Use a tool like mitmproxy to observe ArchivesSpace HTTP traffic

1. Download, install, and run mitmproxy - typically on port 8088.

2. Add this plugin to ArchivesSpace:

AppConfig[:plugins] = ['aspace_mitm_proxy']

3. Run the backend, frontend, and / or public devservers with a special environment variable:

ASPACE_PROXY_PORT=8088 ./build/run backend:devserver

4. Make a curl request to a search endpoint:

curl -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session:$ASPACE_SESSION" "$ASPACE_BACKEND_URL/repositories/3/search?q=papers&page=1"

5. Inspect the backend's request to Solr in the mitmproxy console: