It was working with mitmproxy for a very brief period, then the TLS handshake started failing and it kept requesting for re-authentication when proxied.
You can get the whole auth flow and initial conversation starters using Burp Suite and its certificate, but the Gemini chat responses fail in the CLI, which I understand is due to how Burp handles HTTP2 (you can see the valid responses inside Burp Suite).
I've been intercepting its HTTP requests by running it inside a docker container with:
-e HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080 -e HTTPS_PROXY=http://host.docker.internal:8080 -e NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1
It was working with mitmproxy for a very brief period, then the TLS handshake started failing and it kept requesting for re-authentication when proxied.
You can get the whole auth flow and initial conversation starters using Burp Suite and its certificate, but the Gemini chat responses fail in the CLI, which I understand is due to how Burp handles HTTP2 (you can see the valid responses inside Burp Suite).