What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.| High Performance Browser Networking
This is a continuation of the previous post. If you didn’t read it, please go ahead and read at least until the TL;DR section. In summary, various web services perform TLS fingerprinting to identify whether you run a real browser like Chrome or Firefox or whether it is a tool like curl or a Python script. I created curl-impersonate, a modified version of curl that performs TLS handshakes which are identical to Firefox’s, thereby tricking said services to believe it is a real browser.| lwt hiker
This was a fun afternoon reverse engineering project so I figured I’d write a bit about it.| lwt hiker