Proxify Review 2026: ProjectDiscovery's MITM Proxy Tested
You know the scenario. So you’re deep in a security assessment, and something about the HTTP traffic feels off. The response body looks different from what the frontend expects, or a third-party API call is silently failing. You need to intercept it, inspect it, maybe replay it — but spinning up BurpSuite just for a quick look feels like overkill. Here’s the short answer: Proxify is the lightweight alternative. It’s an open-source MITM proxy from ProjectDiscovery (the team behind Nuclei, 22K★) that captures, manipulates, and replays HTTP/HTTPS traffic — all from a single Go binary. The project sits at 3K★ on GitHub, ships in under 15MB, and has Docker images ready to go. And because it’s from ProjectDiscovery, you know the tooling DNA is solid. ...