# Is it possible to use mitmproxy with Roku?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-mitmproxy-with-roku/297>\
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**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-mitmproxy-with-roku/297 "2017-01-09T17:59:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![farnett44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/87869e/32.png) [@farnett44](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/farnett44)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-mitmproxy-with-roku/297/1 "2017-01-09T17:59:19Z")

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I have been unable to find any documentation and I was wondering if there is a way to monitor the traffic on Roku with mitmproxy. As far as I can tell Roku does not allow proxies so I’m assuming this would not work but I’m hoping there is a work around. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![simcop2387](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mitmproxy.org/simcop2387/32/95_2.png) [@simcop2387](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/simcop2387)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-mitmproxy-with-roku/297/2 "2017-01-10T00:07:02Z")

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You’d need to put a machine in between the roku and the rest of the network, either as a bridge or setup to nat/route the traffic (the specifics of that will depend on what you have available to do it). Then you’d setup a firewall rule to send traffic to mitmproxy like this document talks about

[http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/transparent.html](http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/transparent.html)

What I suspect however is that you won’t get too much information out as I think the roku does most of the streaming via other protocols that mitmproxy doesn’t support (rtsp, etc). but putting a machine in between might let you capture other traffic via wireshark/tcpdump

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**Author:** ![farnett44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/87869e/32.png) [@farnett44](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/u/farnett44)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mitmproxy.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-mitmproxy-with-roku/297/3 "2017-01-12T22:40:37Z")

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So does that mean I would need to figure out what streaming protocols roku uses and then find a proxy tool that would be able to handle those protocols? Or is this going to be an issue not specific to MITMProxy?