Perl, Ruby Python: use the language that suits your character. However, one of the things that differentiate python from the rest is its philosophy, which is: there should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it (where it is a problem). This philosophy gives python some interesting advantages over other similar languages. That will be explained later on. [...]
Lately I’ve been busy with putting together a python module which allows me to create man-in-the-middle (MITM) HTTP Proxies with a programmer-friendly extension interface and support for SSL. This kind of proxies can be used for many things ranging from creating your own tampering proxies to hijacking network traffic via a transparent proxy connection.
I am quite pleased with the end result! [...]
I don’t want to brag about it but this project was slashed in 5 minutes and this is not due to some amazing tech wizardy. It is mainly due to the powerful Java development platform and the tones of development information resources, Java coders have on their hands. I just made use of them. This morning I had some thoughts around the Metasploit and w3af projects and how the GNUCITIZEN team can contribute some modules to make both of them even more powerful. [...]
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