Java littleproxy mitm: getting response body

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I am trying to use littleproxy-mitm to inspect traffic. I have access to the headers and can easily read them. However, I cant find the body of a response consitently. To see if I can get the body I am using this testing my app by visiting, but the wanted body is no where to be found. But when I visit other sites like google, facebook and twitter I seem to get gibberish(encoded body gzip most prob) and sometimes html.

Here is the filter:

public HttpObject serverToProxyResponse(HttpObject httpObject) {
        if(httpObject instanceof FullHttpResponse){
            FullHttpResponse response = (FullHttpResponse) httpObject;
            CompositeByteBuf contentBuf = (CompositeByteBuf) response.content();

            String contentStr = contentBuf.toString(CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
        return httpObject;

Any idea why I am unable to get body from ?


To answer my own question.

This code snippet works and will print the whole response. But the reason I was not getting the body response is either the header “Modified-since..” or the “Cache-control: public”.

Source: stackoverflow