kasketis/netfox
Netfox
Netfox is an iOS and macOS network debugging library designed to intercept and monitor HTTP traffic. It functions as an in-app HTTP traffic inspector that captures request headers and response bodies for real-time network analysis.
The tool provides a network performance monitor to calculate response times and data sizes, as well as a network log exporter for sharing captured request and response data via email.
The project covers network analysis capabilities including traffic filtering to exclude specific URLs, request body capture, and a debug interface that can be toggled via programmatic calls or device gestures.
Features
- Traffic Interception - Intercepts network traffic by hooking into session configurations to capture outgoing and incoming HTTP data.
- Network Traffic Monitors - Provides an in-app tool for monitoring network traffic in real-time to debug HTTP requests and responses.
- Request-Response Buffers - Buffers intercepted HTTP messages in memory to allow for real-time inspection and statistics calculation.
- API Response Inspection - Provides tools for analyzing and verifying the structure and content of network API responses in real time.
- HTTP Request Inspectors - Functions as an in-app overlay that captures and inspects HTTP requests for debugging and development.
- iOS Network Debugging - Captures and analyzes network traffic generated by native iOS applications to identify API issues.
- macOS Network Debugging - Intercepts and analyzes network traffic on macOS to debug connectivity and payload data during development.
- Network Traffic Logs - Provides a system for searching and analyzing persistent logs of intercepted network request and response data.
- Real-Time Traffic Monitoring - Tracks outgoing network requests and response times in real time using an on-screen debugging interface.
- Performance Metric Aggregators - Computes average response times and total payload sizes to provide performance metrics for network requests.
- Network Statistics APIs - Exposes calculated network performance and timing statistics for specific request types.
- Network Performance Analyzers - Audits the timing and payload size of network requests to analyze application network statistics.
- Predicate-Based Request Filtering - Evaluates boolean predicates to exclude specific URLs or hosts from the captured network logs.
- Traffic Log Exporters - Serializes captured network traffic logs into plain text formats for sharing via email.
- Network Traffic Analysis - Isolates and filters network data by excluding specific URLs or hosts to reduce debugging noise.
- Application Performance Profiling - Measures average response times and data sizes to identify performance bottlenecks in the network layer.
- Network Archive Exports - Exports captured HTTP network traffic into formats that facilitate the reproduction and debugging of API failures.
- Payload Capturers - Captures and stores HTTP body data to bypass logging limitations for detailed network analysis.
- Networking Frameworks - Provides one-line network debugging and interception.
- Debugging Tools - Lightweight network debugging library.
- iOS and macOS Utilities - Lightweight network debugging library for iOS and macOS.
- Network Analysis and Proxies - Lightweight network debugging library for mobile apps.
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