Productivity

Fiddler’s Inspectors have the choice of displaying either the relative or absolute URL in the Request Line. Displaying the absolute URL simplifies request tampering, while displaying only the relative path more closely replicates what servers actually receive.

Scorpion Software is a Canadian based software security specialist that helps SMBs reduce their business liability, gain staff accountability and increase productivity with software that monitors and strengthens access to information on premise and in the Cloud. System quality is especially important for a vendor of security software. With three product lines and multiple platforms to support, the QA requirement was becoming increasingly hard for Scorpion Software’s existing testing system to meet. Scorpion Software made Telerik Test Studio the heart of their automated test management platform, leveraging Test Studio’s extensibility to create a custom solution meeting their unique needs. As a result, ...

Recently, a Fiddler user contacted me to note that they discovered a client/server application which failed when the TLS version 1.1 option is enabled in Internet Explorer’s Advanced settings. They were surprised to find that when they attempted to use Fiddler to debug the communication, the connection was instead successful.

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.

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