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pathod(1) pathod(1)

NAME

pathod - a pathological HTTP/S daemon

SYNOPSIS

pathod [-h] [--version] [-p PORT] [-l ADDRESS] [-a ANCHOR]

       [-c CRAFTANCHOR] [--confdir CONFDIR] [-d STATICDIR] [-D]

       [-t TIMEOUT] [--limit-size SIZELIMIT] [--nohang] [--nocraft]

       [--webdebug] [-s] [--cn CN] [-C] [--cert SPEC]

       [--ciphers CIPHERS] [--san SAN]

       [--ssl-version {all|TLSv1_2|secure|TLSv1_1|TLSv1|SSLv3|SSLv2}]

       [-e] [-f LOGFILE] [-q] [-r] [-x] [--http2-framedump]

DESCRIPTION

pathod is a pathological HTTP daemon designed to let you craft almost any conceivable HTTP response, including ones that creatively violate the standards. HTTP responses are specified using a small, terse language which pathod shares with its evil twin, pathoc. To start playing with pathod, fire up the daemon: 

$ pathod

By default, the service listens on port 9999 of localhost, and the default crafting anchor point is the path /p/. Anything after this URL prefix is treated as a response specifier. So, hitting the following URL will generate an HTTP 200 response with 100 bytes of random data:


http://localhost:9999/p/200:b@100

See the language documentation (http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/pathod/language.html#language) to get (much) fancier.

OPTIONS

Optional Arguments:

-h, --help
Show this help message and exit.
--version
Show program's version number and exit.
-p PORT
Port. Specify 0 to pick an arbitrary empty port. (Default: 9999)
-l ADDRESS
Listening address. (Default: 127.0.0.1)
-a ANCHOR
Add an anchor. Specified as a string with the form pattern=spec or pattern=filepath, where pattern is a regular expression.
-c CRAFTANCHOR
URL path specifying prefix for URL crafting commands. (Default: /p/)
--confdir CONFDIR
Configuration directory. (Default: ~/.mitmproxy)
-d STATICDIR
Directory for static files.
-D
Daemonize.
-t TIMEOUT
Connection timeout.
--limit-size SIZELIMIT
Size limit of served responses. Understands size suffixes, e.g. 100k.
--nohang
Disable pauses during crafted response generation.
--nocraft
Disable response crafting. If anchors are specified, they still work.
--webdebug
Debugging mode for the web app (dev only).

SSL:

-s
Run in HTTPS mode.
--cn CN
CN for generated SSL certs. (Default: pathod.net)
-C
Don't expect SSL after a CONNECT request.
--cert SPEC
Add an SSL certificate. SPEC is of the form "[domain=]path". The domain may include a wildcard, and is equal to "*" if not specified. The file at path is a certificate in PEM format. If a private key is included in the PEM, it is used, otherwise the default key in the conf dir is used. Can be passed multiple times.
--ciphers CIPHERS
SSL cipher specification.
--san SAN
Subject Altnernate Name to add to the server certificate. May be passed multiple times.
--ssl-version {all|TLSv1_2|secure|TLSv1_1|TLSv1|SSLv3|SSLv2}
Set supported SSL/TLS versions. SSLv2, SSLv3 and all are INSECURE. Defaults to secure, which is TLS1.0+.

Controlling Logging:

Some of these options expand generated values for logging. If you're generating large data, use them with caution.
-e
Explain responses.
-f LOGFILE
Log to file.
-q
Log full request.
-r
Log full response.
-x
Log request/response in hexdump format.
--http2-framedump
Output all received & sent HTTP/2 frames.

AUTHORS

pathod was written by Aldo Cortesi.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but its use elsewhere is encouraged.

SEE ALSO

pathod documentation and examples are available online at <http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/pathod/intro.html#pathod>.
November 2016