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# Reflex
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Simulate Referrer-Based Traffic with HTTPS Redirects
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# 🪞 Reflex
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**Simulate Referrer-Based Traffic with HTTPS Redirects**
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**Reflex** is a lightweight CLI tool for developers and QA engineers to simulate web traffic that appears to originate from trusted domains like `news.google.com`. It’s ideal for testing A/B experiments, analytics triggers (e.g. Piano, Adobe Target), or any system that relies on referrer headers.
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> ⚡️ _“Redirect. Spoof. Test. Repeat.”_
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## 🚀 Features
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- ✅ Simulates traffic with any `Referer` value
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- 🔒 HTTPS redirect server with trusted local certs (via `mkcert`)
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- 🛠️ Safe modification & restoration of `/etc/hosts`
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- 🌐 Automatically opens browser to spoofed domain
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- 🔁 Auto-fallback from port 443 → 8443
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- 🧹 Cleanup certs and hosts on exit
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- 🐧 macOS + Linux support
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## 🔧 Use Cases
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- ✅ Test A/B testing platforms (Adobe Target, Optimizely, etc.)
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- ✅ Validate analytics pipelines (Piano, GA, Segment, etc.)
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- ✅ Simulate traffic from social media, news aggregators, or search engines
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- ✅ Reproduce edge-case behaviors (like `document.referrer` logic)
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