[question] No traffic captured from a game

[somehundred]

I wanted to inspect internet requests made by a game but Reqable didn't show any. Meanwhile both Wireshark and NextDNS displayed network requests made by the game, I recognized developers' server names in the logs and it was TCP traffic which is supported by Reqable. What should I try to be able to capture game's traffic with Reqable?

[MegatronKing]

@somehundred Reqable currently only supports application-layer HTTP/WebSocket protocol traffic and cannot identify and capture TCP layer traffic.

[somehundred]

@MegatronKing I don't know much about protocols but HTTPS traffic which is supported by Reqable shows up as TCP and TLS in Wireshark. Also, mitmproxy captures the traffic from this game as HTTPS traffic. I'm unsure why Reqable isn't capturing traffic.

[MegatronKing]

Could you please provide the traffic data captured by mitmproxy?

[somehundred]

Yes, I can but it contains some personally identifiable info. Where can I send it?

[MegatronKing]

Yes, I can but it contains some personally identifiable info. Where can I send it?

You can replace your sensitive info with a fake value, but do not change the structure.

[somehundred]

where winds meet - redacted.har.txt

Remove the .txt extension before opening.

[MegatronKing]

Thanks, it's just a regular HTTP/1.1 request, nothing special, and Reqable should work. Could you tell me the steps you take to use Reqable?

[somehundred]

I just opened Reqable and started the game. That's all. Maybe it's worth noting that the game ran as admin and uses CURL to make these network requests. CURL requests never show up in Reqable unless I use Proxy Terminal option.

[MegatronKing]

I just opened Reqable and started the game. That's all. Maybe it's worth noting that the game ran as admin and uses CURL to make these network requests. CURL requests never show up in Reqable unless I use Proxy Terminal option.

This makes sense. Reqable relies on system proxy, if the application doesn't use the system proxy, Reqable won't receive traffic. I don't know how MitmProxy manages to receive traffic, perhaps it's in TUN mode?

[somehundred]

I have no idea. Is there nothing that could be done to capture traffic from Reqable?

[MegatronKing]

I have no idea. Is there nothing that could be done to capture traffic from Reqable?

See this blog: https://reqable.com/blog/2024/07/03/post