Doc and readme tweaks.

README.mkd

@@ -32,17 +32,13 @@ Requirements
 
 * [Python](http://www.python.org) 2.7.x.
 * [netlib](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/netlib), version matching mitmproxy.
-* [PyOpenSSL](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL) 0.13 or newer.
-* [pyasn1](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyasn1) 0.1.2 or newer.
-* [urwid](http://excess.org/urwid/) version 1.1 or newer.
-* [PIL](http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) version 1.1 or newer.
-* [lxml](http://lxml.de/) version 2.3 or newer.
-* [flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/) version 0.9 or newer.
+* Third-party packages listed in [setup.py](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/setup.py)
 
-Optional, for extended content decoding:
+Optional packages for extended content decoding:
 
 * [PyAMF](http://www.pyamf.org/) version 0.6.1 or newer.
 * [protobuf](https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/) version 2.5.0 or newer.
+* [cssutils](http://cthedot.de/cssutils/) version 1.0 or newer.
 
 __mitmproxy__ is tested and developed on OSX, Linux and OpenBSD. Windows is not
 officially supported at the moment.
@@ -57,7 +53,8 @@ The following components are needed if you plan to hack on mitmproxy:
   framework and requires [pathod](http://pathod.org) and [flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/).
 * Rendering the documentation requires [countershape](http://github.com/cortesi/countershape).
 
-For convenience, all dependencies save countershape, can be installed from pypi to a virtualenv with 'pip install -r requirements.txt'.
+For convenience, all dependencies save countershape can be installed from pypi
+to a virtualenv with 'pip install -r requirements.txt'.
 
 Please ensure that all patches are accompanied by matching changes in the test
 suite. The project maintains 100% test coverage.

doc-src/_nav.html

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
         $!nav("anticache.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("clientreplay.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("filters.html", this, state)!$
+        $!nav("forwardproxy.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("proxyauth.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("replacements.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("serverreplay.html", this, state)!$
@@ -21,27 +22,27 @@
 
     <li class="nav-header">Installing Certificates</li>
         $!nav("ssl.html", this, state)!$
+        $!nav("certinstall/android.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("certinstall/firefox.html", this, state)!$
-        $!nav("certinstall/osx.html", this, state)!$
-        $!nav("certinstall/windows7.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("certinstall/ios.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("certinstall/ios-simulator.html", this, state)!$
-        $!nav("certinstall/android.html", this, state)!$
+        $!nav("certinstall/osx.html", this, state)!$
+        $!nav("certinstall/windows7.html", this, state)!$
 
     <li class="nav-header">Transparent Proxying</li>
         $!nav("transparent.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("transparent/linux.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("transparent/osx.html", this, state)!$
 
+    <li class="nav-header">Scripting mitmproxy</li>
+        $!nav("scripting/inlinescripts.html", this, state)!$
+        $!nav("scripting/libmproxy.html", this, state)!$
+
     <li class="nav-header">Tutorials</li>
         $!nav("tutorials/30second.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("tutorials/gamecenter.html", this, state)!$
         $!nav("tutorials/transparent-dhcp.html", this, state)!$
 
-    <li class="nav-header">Scripting mitmproxy</li>
-        $!nav("scripting/inlinescripts.html", this, state)!$
-        $!nav("scripting/libmproxy.html", this, state)!$
-
     <li class="nav-header">Hacking</li>
         $!nav("dev/testing.html", this, state)!$
 </ul>

doc-src/features/forwardproxy.html

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+
+In this mode, mitmproxy accepts proxy requests and unconditionally forwards all
+requests to a specified upstream server. This is in contrast to <a
+href="@!urlTo("reverseproxy.html")!@">reverse proxy mode</a>, in which
+mitmproxy forwards ordinary HTTP requests to an upstream server.
+
+<table class="table">
+    <tbody>
+        <tr>
+            <th width="20%">command-line</th> <td>-F http[s]://hostname[:port]</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+            <th>mitmproxy shortcut</th> <td><b>F</b></td>
+        </tr>
+    </tbody>
+</table>

doc-src/features/index.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     Page("anticache.html", "Anticache"),
     Page("clientreplay.html", "Client-side replay"),
     Page("filters.html", "Filter expressions"),
+    Page("forwardproxy.html", "Forward proxy mode"),
     Page("setheaders.html", "Set Headers"),
     Page("serverreplay.html", "Server-side replay"),
     Page("sticky.html", "Sticky cookies and auth"),

doc-src/features/reverseproxy.html

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 
-In reverse proxy mode, mitmproxy acts as a standard HTTP server and forwards
-all requests to the specified upstream server. Note that the displayed URL for
-flows in this mode will use the value of the __Host__ header field from the
-request, not the reverse proxy server.
+In reverse proxy mode, mitmproxy accepts standard HTTP requests and forwards
+them to the specified upstream server. This is in contrast to <a
+href="@!urlTo("forwardproxy.html")!@">forward proxy mode</a>, in which
+mitmproxy forwards HTTP proxy requests to an upstream server.
 
+Note that the displayed URL for flows in this mode will use the value of the
+__Host__ header field from the request, not the reverse proxy server. 
 
 <table class="table">
     <tbody>

requirements.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ MarkupSafe>=0.18
 Pillow>=2.3.0,<2.4
 Werkzeug>=0.8.3
 lxml>=3.2.1
-netlib>=0.9.2
+netlib>=0.10
 nose>=1.3.0
 mock>=1.0.1
 pathod>=0.9.2