diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/rest-client.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/rest-client.adoc index cafc6486118531..62e0810f376ef1 100644 --- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/rest-client.adoc +++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/rest-client.adoc @@ -1657,6 +1657,34 @@ quarkus.rest-client.my-client.url=... NOTE: MicroProfile REST Client specification does not allow setting proxy credentials. In order to specify proxy user and proxy password programmatically, you need to cast your `RestClientBuilder` to `RestClientBuilderImpl`. +=== Local proxy for Dev Mode + +When using the REST Client in dev mode, Quarkus has the ability to stand up a pass-through proxy which can be used as a target for Wireshark (or similar tools) +in order to capture all the traffic originating from the REST Client (this really makes sense when the REST Client is used against HTTPS services) + +To enable this feature, all that needs to be done is set the `enable-local-proxy` configuration option for the configKey corresponding to the client for which proxying is desired. +For example: + +[source,properties] +---- +quarkus.rest-client.my-client.enable-local-proxy=true +---- + +When a REST Client does not use a config key (for example when it is created programmatically via `QuarkusRestClientBuilder`) then the class name can be used instead. +For example: + +[source,properties] +---- +quarkus.rest-client."org.acme.SomeClient".enable-local-proxy=true +---- + +The port the proxy is listening can be found in startup logs. An example entry is: + +[source] +---- +Started HTTP proxy server on http://localhost:38227 for REST Client 'org.acme.SomeClient' +---- + == Package and run the application Run the application with: