windows-subsystem-for-linuxzapburp

How to use a windows proxy using WSL2?

I would like to use a proxy on windows such as burp or ZAP while running an application in WSL with python requests. I'm running into a bunch of errors right now:

Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused

Using python requests with the windows proxy would work (ie. {"http": constants.PROXY, "https": constants.PROXY}) where constants.PROXY = '127.0.0.1:8080' which is the proxy listening on windows

Solution

  • Found an answer to this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#wslconfig

    TLDR: I had to make a .wslconfig file in my Windows home directory (through PowerShell), and in it I put:

    [wsl2]
networkingMode=mirrored