Mitmproxy is a an open source proxy application. It uses a typical mam-in-the-middle attack (MITM) to intercept HTTP and HTTPS connections between client and a web server. It works similar to Squid proxy by accepting connections from clients and forwarding them to the target server.

cmd_start: "ab -c 1 -t 60 -n 999999 -e /tngbench_share/ab_logs.csv -s 60 -k -i http://20.0.0.254:80/" where 20.0.0.254:80 is the IP address of the VNF.

mitmdump is the command-line usage of mitmproxy.

scripts can be used to intercept traffic. One such script is given in example_script/sample.py. It is however not used in this example.