diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index e551d37..b466cc6 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -16,5 +16,9 @@ dependencies {
     compile group: 'javax.ws.rs', name: 'javax.ws.rs-api', version: '2.0-m02'
     compile group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core', name: 'jackson-core', version: '2.9.8'
     compile group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core', name: 'jackson-databind', version: '2.9.8'
+    compile group: 'org.zeroturnaround', name: 'zt-exec', version: '1.10'
+    compile group: 'org.zeroturnaround', name: 'zt-process-killer', version: '1.9'
+    compile group: 'org.slf4j', name: 'slf4j-simple', version: '1.7.26'
     testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
+    testCompile group: 'com.mashape.unirest', name: 'unirest-java', version: '1.4.9'
 }
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 115e6ac..d9cef9d 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+#Thu Apr 11 14:32:28 PDT 2019
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10-all.zip
diff --git a/src/main/java/MitmproxyJava.java b/src/main/java/MitmproxyJava.java
index 913d580..291ecb0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/MitmproxyJava.java
+++ b/src/main/java/MitmproxyJava.java
@@ -1,25 +1,85 @@
-import org.java_websocket.client.WebSocketClient;
-import org.java_websocket.handshake.ServerHandshake;
+import org.zeroturnaround.exec.ProcessExecutor;
+import org.zeroturnaround.exec.ProcessResult;
+import org.zeroturnaround.exec.stream.slf4j.Slf4jStream;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
-import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.Socket;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 import java.util.function.Function;
 
 public class MitmproxyJava {
 
+    private String mitmproxyPath;
     private MitmproxyServer server;
+    private Future<ProcessResult> mitmproxyProcess;
     public static final int WEBSOCKET_PORT = 8765;
 
-    public MitmproxyJava(Function<InterceptedMessage, InterceptedMessage> messageInterceptor) throws URISyntaxException {
+    public MitmproxyJava(String mitmproxyPath, Function<InterceptedMessage, InterceptedMessage> messageInterceptor) throws URISyntaxException {
+        this.mitmproxyPath = mitmproxyPath;
         server = new MitmproxyServer(new InetSocketAddress("localhost", WEBSOCKET_PORT), messageInterceptor);
-        server.run();
+        server.start();
         System.out.println("you started me");
     }
 
+    public void start() throws IOException, InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException {
+        System.out.println("starting mitmproxy on port 8080");
+        mitmproxyProcess = new ProcessExecutor()
+                .command(mitmproxyPath, "--anticache", "-s", "scripts/proxy.py")
+                .redirectOutput(Slf4jStream.ofCaller().asInfo())
+                .destroyOnExit()
+                .start()
+                .getFuture();
+
+        waitForPortToBeInUse(8080);
+        System.out.println("done waiting");
+
+    }
+
     public void stop() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+        mitmproxyProcess.cancel(true);
         server.stop();
     }
+
+    private void waitForPortToBeInUse(int port) throws TimeoutException {
+        boolean inUse = false;
+        Socket s = null;
+        int tries = 0;
+        int maxTries = 60 * 1000 / 100;
+
+        while (!inUse) {
+            try
+            {
+                s = new Socket("localhost", port);
+            }
+            catch (IOException e)
+            {
+                inUse = false;
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                if(s != null) {
+                    inUse = true;
+                    try {
+                        s.close();
+                    } catch (Exception e) {
+                    }
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            tries++;
+            if (tries == maxTries) {
+                throw new TimeoutException("Timed out waiting for mitmproxy to start");
+            }
+            try {
+                Thread.sleep(100);
+            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/MitmproxyServer.java b/src/main/java/MitmproxyServer.java
index 41e964c..0405d8f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/MitmproxyServer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/MitmproxyServer.java
@@ -72,6 +72,6 @@ public void onError(WebSocket conn, Exception ex) {
 
     @Override
     public void onStart() {
-        System.out.println("server started successfully");
+        System.out.println("websocket server started successfully");
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/MitmproxyJavaTest.java b/src/test/java/MitmproxyJavaTest.java
index ddb55aa..169b6f8 100644
--- a/src/test/java/MitmproxyJavaTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/MitmproxyJavaTest.java
@@ -1,17 +1,24 @@
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.exceptions.UnirestException;
+import com.mashape.unirest.request.GetRequest;
+import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
+import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
-import java.util.function.Function;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+import static junit.framework.TestCase.assertTrue;
 
 public class MitmproxyJavaTest {
 
     @Test
     public void ConstructorTest() throws URISyntaxException, IOException, InterruptedException {
-        MitmproxyJava proxy = new MitmproxyJava((InterceptedMessage m) -> {
+        MitmproxyJava proxy = new MitmproxyJava("/usr/local/bin/mitmdump", (InterceptedMessage m) -> {
             System.out.println(m.requestURL.toString());
             return m;
         });
@@ -20,6 +27,28 @@ public void ConstructorTest() throws URISyntaxException, IOException, Interrupte
     }
 
     //todo test not modifying (by not returning)
-    
+
     //todo test modifying a response
+
+    @Test
+    public void StartTest() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException, IOException, URISyntaxException, UnirestException {
+        List<InterceptedMessage> messages = new ArrayList<InterceptedMessage>();
+
+        MitmproxyJava proxy = new MitmproxyJava("/usr/local/bin/mitmdump", (InterceptedMessage m) -> {
+            messages.add(m);
+            return m;
+        });
+        proxy.start();
+
+        Unirest.setProxy(new HttpHost("localhost", 8080));
+        Unirest.get("http://appium.io").asString();
+
+        proxy.stop();
+
+        assertTrue(messages.size() > 0);
+
+        InterceptedMessage appiumIORequest = messages.stream().filter((m) -> m.requestURL.getHost().equals("appium.io")).findFirst().get();
+
+        assertTrue(appiumIORequest.responseCode == 200);
+    }
 }
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