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Using Membrane Monitor as Proxy for Firefox

Stefan Maibücher

By: Stefan Maibücher
Date: 10/28/2009

This short article describes how to use Membrane Monitor as a HTTP proxy with the Firefox Browser. If you have not already configured the monitor to work as a proxy, please follow the instruction in Using Membrane monitor as HTTP Proxy.

First open the Firefox options by clicking Options... in the Tools menu.

Firefox Options
Figure 1: Firefox Options

Click on the Network tab. There you'll find the Connections section with the Settings button. Click on that button.

Firefox Network Options
Figure 2: Firefox Network Options

Choose the Manual proxy configuration. Specify the host where Membrane Monitor is running. If the monitor is running on the same computer choose localhost. Also specify the port number of the proxy rule. Then click on OK.

Firefox Proxy Settings
Figure 3: Firefox Proxy Settings

Now you can start surfing with Firefox. Just visit one page.

Testing the Proxy
Figure 4: Testing the Proxy

Now have a look at the monitor. It should show the message exchange between Firefox and the visited Web servers.

Captured HTTP Requests and Responses
Figure 5: Captured HTTP Requests and Responses