In Atlanta, Georgia, ethical hacker James Patel is hired by Southern Retail, a major e-commerce...

The best choice is Caido because the scenario describes a web-focused interception proxy workflow: intercepting HTTP traffic, logging requests, and performing advanced searches to identify session tokens. In CEH-aligned web application testing methodology, session hijacking simulations commonly rely on an intercepting proxy to observe and manipulate application-layer requests and responses, extract session identifiers from cookies or headers, and demonstrate how weak session management can lead to account compromise. A lightweight security research proxy that captures traffic and supports fast filtering and searching across requests fits this exact need. Caido is designed as a modern web security toolkit centered around an interception proxy, allowing testers to capture browser-to-server traffic, inspect headers and cookies, and quickly search through recorded traffic for patterns such as session IDs, authentication cookies, bearer tokens, or predictable parameters.

The other tools are less aligned with the described requirements. Wireshark is a powerful packet analyzer, but it operates primarily at the packet level and is not optimized for web-app testing workflows such as organized request history, token-focused searching, and convenient HTTP manipulation. Bettercap is primarily a network MITM and exploitation framework; while it can intercept traffic, it is not the typical choice for controlled web proxy testing and detailed HTTP request analysis in the way described. Hetty is an HTTP toolkit, but the question’s emphasis on a lightweight, security-research proxy with strong captured-data searching and request logging aligns more closely with Caido’s purpose-built approach for web application assessments and session token discovery.

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