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mitmproxy, a project by @cortesi, @maximilianhils, and @raumfresser.
Maintained by the core team with the help of fantastic contributors.
Code licensed MIT, website © Mitmproxy Project.

This repository contains only binaries and their compilation approach. The reason behind it is official rejection from MitmProxy maintainer to provide binaries, that can run in RHEL 7 and CentOS 7.

• No copyright infringement intended.
• No personal attack implied, this is the solution, not ad hominem argument

Original build of MITMProxy is built on top of GLIBC with version, that is higher than GLIBC available in CentOS. So pre-compiled binaries, that can be downloaded from https://mitmproxy.org/downloads/ will not work in CentOS 7. Developer(s) officially refused to support older version of GLIBC (issue link).

One does not simply upgrade GLIBC in the system; so the most elegant solution would be to recompile MITMProxy from sources in the system, that it will be run in - CentOS 7.8 in our case.

CentOS 8 has GLIBC upgraded and this workaround will become irrelevant when we upgrade OS on our live hosts and therefore our local enviroments.

The idea is straightforward - the local VM with CentOS 7 is created, sources are downloaded, build instructions overriden, binaries compiled and downloaded from VM to host machine.

vagrant up

This will power on the virtual machine, create necessary folders locally, run provisioning, and retrieve compiled files from VM to the host if everything goes smoothly.

vagrant destroy

After the previous process succeeds in order to keep your local VMs clean from unnecessary instances.