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Add a note about the REST Client's dev mode proxy
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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:
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