Productivity: Debugging

Yesterday, an updated Fiddler Beta was released, targeting .NET2 or .NET4. This update contains the usual set of bug fixes as well as a number of small features that I hope you’ll find useful. Column Customization Fiddler has always permitted you to customize the set of displayed columns to show information you’re interested in directly inside the Web Sessions list. However, adding new columns isn’t as easy as it could be, and this Beta includes the first steps toward simplifying this process. Simply right-click on the column headers and choose Customize columns… A simple popup will open to allow you ...

Fiddler offers numerous ways to tag Web Sessions so you can easily identify them later. For instance, you can use the Comment button on the toolbar (or hit the M key) after selecting items in Web Sessions list to add notes about the traffic...

The latest Fiddler beta v2.4.2.5 (targeting .NET2 or .NET4) includes several improvements to the ImageView Response Inspector. While its appearance remains mostly unchanged, the new version provides much more insight into the metadata often included with image files. Read on for more details.

In my previous post, I discussed the recent enhancements to Fiddler’s ImageView extension that expose metadata about image files under inspection. My initial goal in exposing metadata was to help you optimize the size of images in order to build faster websites. However, in some cases the privacy implications of such metadata can be of far greater concern.

A key advantage Fiddler has over a traditional packet sniffer or in-browser network monitor is the ability to modify the traffic. This can be done manually (using breakpoints and Inspectors) or automatically, using FiddlerScript or extensions. In today’s post, I’d like to introduce one such extension—ContentBlock