Oh no! We couldn't connect to HTTP Toolkit. Is it running, and connected to the same network as this device? about httptoolkit-android

[pimterry]

Excellent! I'll close this now, glad that sorted it for you 👍

[pimterry]

Thanks @thorbn. When this happens, does anything appear on the 'View' page on your computer? If the phone can connect to your computer, there should be at least one http://android.httptoolkit.tech/config request there that's sent during setup.

[thorbn]

Hello. There is nothing appearing in the "View" tab on my computer. I don't get anything on my computer, just the error message on my phone.

[pimterry]

Ok, it's almost certain that there's some kind of connectivity issue in that case. At this stage the app is sending an HTTP request to your computer on your proxy port (8000, by default) testing each of your computer's IP addresses to see how to connect, and it's not arriving on any of them.

There's lots of things that can cause this unfortunately. Some networks don't allow connectivity between local devices, which would do this, as would a firewall on your computer that blocks all connections to that port.

You can test connectivity by trying to open http://<your computer's IP>:8000/ in a browser on your device. If you can connect, you should see a request appear on the View page, and see a response appear in the browser on your phone (typically a message like 'Passthrough loop detected' unless you've added a custom rule, because you're not really supposed to make direct requests to the proxy). In this case though, you'll probably see an error that may tell you more about the connectivity issues.

If none of that comes up with any clues, you can also try looking at the raw logs from the device. Those are available via ADB with adb logcat -T1, and you'll see messages in there like:

tech.httptoolkit.android.MainActivity: Connecting to VPN from URL: https://android.httptoolkit.tech/connect/?data=...
tech.httptoolkit.android.ProxySetup: URL data is {"addresses":["$IP", "$ANOTHER_IP"],"port":8000,"localTunnelPort":8000,"certFingerprint":"QWEASDQWEASDqweasdqweasd="}
tech.httptoolkit.android (kotlinx.coroutines.SupervisorCoroutine): Validating proxy info ProxyInfo(addresses=[$IP, $ANOTHER_IP], port=8000, localTunnelPort=8000, certFingerprint=QWEASDQWEASDqweasdqweasd=)
tech.httptoolkit.android (kotlinx.coroutines.SupervisorCoroutine): Proxy tests started
tech.httptoolkit.android (kotlinx.coroutines.UndispatchedCoroutine): Testing proxy $IP:8000
tech.httptoolkit.android (kotlinx.coroutines.UndispatchedCoroutine): Testing proxy $ANOTHER_IP:8000
tech.httptoolkit.android (kotlinx.coroutines.UndispatchedCoroutine): Error testing proxy address $IP: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to $IP
tech.httptoolkit.android (kotlinx.coroutines.UndispatchedCoroutine): Error testing proxy address $ANOTHERIP: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out

That will at least tell you exactly what IPs were used, and what the connection errors are. It's also technically possible something else could be failing here and causing this behaviour, and that will be listed in here if so, but I've never seen anything but connectivity problems cause cases like this so I'd be pretty surprised.

[thorbn]

Thanks for your help. I deactivated all firewalls that could be causing this and now it's working!