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Import mitm certificate to CA in arch linux
  1. After installing mitmproxy run it (just type mitmproxy) in a terminal session and quit. This will create the necessaries certificates files at ~/.mitmproxy.

  2. Extract the certificate to .crt format:
    openssl x509 -in ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca.pem -inform PEM -out ca.crt

  3. Trust the certificate into CA:
    sudo trust anchor ca.crt

  4. Run the mitmproxy again

  5. Open another terminal session and set the proxy:

export http_proxy='http://localhost:8080'
export https_proxy='http://localhost:8080'
  1. Run a curl to an https site and it should work:
    curl https://www.google.com
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