Fiddler
Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.
Comments and Reviews
Categories
Development • Network & AdminTags
- Web page debugging
- traffic-monitoring
- http-traffic
- proxy-tunneling
- capturing-data
- proxy-server
Since Eric Lawrence handed it to that Telerik company, this gem is now literally useless malware.
Pretty good, but over time has got a case of feature bloat worse than MS Word. I don't use 99% of what Fiddler can do, and I only prefer it over Chrome's native F12 network tab because I can see full url, request, and response simultaneously plus the JSON tab on request/response that it defaults to on double-click of the URL request line.
Any app that starts with a splash screen with subtitles of all the modules that are loading up, and that pops a box to check for new updates when I've de-selected auto-updating, is an app that's trying to do too much.
I use fiddler more than Firebug and Wireshark because:
Firebug only works in Firefox and I do most of my work in Chrome. Also, Firebug is a Firefox extension so it can be a little clumsy at times.
Wireshark is often overkill when you want to debug http traffic. With Fiddler it's easier to see the http sent and the response with just a click. With Wireshark, the process to recompose the packets and uncompress them is not as easy.
Fiddler can do https with just one click. With Fiddler you spy on encrypted traffic and there's nothing special to install.
[Edited by eyal0, July 23]
great for sniffing http(s) requests