diff --git a/daemon_get.py b/daemon_get.py
index fca24fcb0..0a67367c5 100644
--- a/daemon_get.py
+++ b/daemon_get.py
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ def daemon_http_get(self) -> None:
     referer_domain = _get_referer_domain(self, ua_str)
 
     mitm = detect_mitm(self)
-    if mitm:
+    if mitm and referer_domain:
         print('DEBUG: MITM on HTTP GET, ' + str(referer_domain))
 
     curr_session, proxy_type = \
diff --git a/daemon_post.py b/daemon_post.py
index 87f2dbccd..e99770ed6 100644
--- a/daemon_post.py
+++ b/daemon_post.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ from httpcodes import http_503
 from httpheaders import contains_suspicious_headers
 from httpheaders import update_headers_catalog
 from httpheaders import redirect_headers
+from daemon_utils import detect_mitm
 from daemon_utils import log_epicyon_instances
 from daemon_utils import get_user_agent
 from daemon_utils import post_to_outbox
@@ -98,6 +99,10 @@ def daemon_http_post(self) -> None:
                            self.server.headers_catalog,
                            self.headers)
 
+    mitm = detect_mitm(self)
+    if mitm:
+        print('DEBUG: MITM on HTTP POST, ' + str(self.headers))
+
     # headers used by LLM scrapers
     if 'oai-host-hash' in self.headers:
         print('POST HTTP LLM scraper bounced: ' + str(self.headers))