SSL Proxy with Genymotion and Charles?

Question

I'm trying to get Genymotion (an x86 Android emulator hosted in Virtualbox) working with Charles proxy. I've managed to connect the device to the proxy in the device's wifi proxy settings, using the gateway ip (the vm is configured to use a host-only adapter fwiw) and http traffic is proxied just fine. I've got the charles cert installed on the vm, but all ssl connections still fail with "SSL: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?" errors. Has anyone been able to configure genymotion to work with Charles as an ssl proxy? Is there a more generic solution I can implement through the virtualbox settings?

Thanks in advance.

Solution 1

Updated 21.07.2016 reflecting changes since Charles 3.10

For enabling plain text communication on SSL connections Charles act as a Man in the Middle. After you have managed your device to communicate via Charles http proxy, you need to download and install certificate from your running instance of Charles, its generated and signed by a Charles Root Certificate.

Basically there are two ways possible (I prefer the first one):

Download and install directly on device

Device has to be configured to communicate via Charles!

1. start browser
2. open http://charlesproxy.com/getssl
3. certificate download will be started
4. confirm insertion dialog

Save the certificate from Charles UI

1. save the certificate via "Help -> SSL Proxying -> Save Charles Root Certificate.."
2. put it on a device (via adb push, email ....) and click on the file in order to install it.

Note 1: After install the certificate you will be forced to create a security Pin/Pattern/Password for the device.

Note 2: Since Charles v3.10 single SSL Root Certificates aren't supported anymore.

Solution 2

Go to your genymotion emulator

Settings -> Wifi -> Press and hold your active network

Select “Modify Network”

Select “Show Advanced Options”

Select “Proxy Settings -> Manual”

Set your Proxy to: 10.0.3.2 (Genymotion’s special code for the local workstation. the Network mode must be NAT on virtual device configuration)

Set your Port to: 8888

Press Save.

Although after this you will see the network requests logged in charlesproxy . Open the genymotion browser and go the following URL http://charlesproxy.com/getssl to download and install the certificate . you should be good to go . Copied from :http://rexstjohn.com/using-genymotion-charles-proxy/

Comments

[cV2]

If someone searches it too: In your virtual device, Go to Android settings menu In Wireless & Networks section, select Wi-Fi Press and hold for 2 seconds WiredSSID network in the list Choose Modify Network Check Show advanced options Select Manual for Proxy settings menu entry Now enter the proxy settings provided by your network administrator Finally press the Save button <-> from cloud.genymotion.com/page/faq/#android-proxy

[cV2]

btw: to enable ssl in charles itself: You must specifically identify the host names you want to enable SSL Proxying on. The list is in the Proxy Settings, SSL tab. You can also right-click on a host name in the structure view and turn on or off SSL Proxying.

[Salil Kaul]

its easier to directly install the certificate on genymotion by opening the following url charlesproxy.com/getssl on the device

[vikramvi]

It ask to set up PIN, is there a way to avoid it ?

[vikramvi]

Even after doing this step, I'm getting 503 response. can you please check stackoverflow.com/questions/52163004/…

[vikramvi]

Even after doing this step, I'm getting 503 response. can you please check stackoverflow.com/questions/52163004/…

[Michal Harakal]

Official docs for Charles and VPN charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/…