Can Fiddler reply with content hosted on another server?

[Alex]

I am using the following code to serve a local HTML file when the URL of a web request contains a certain keyword.

if (oSession.uriContains("keyword")) {
  oSession["x-replywithfile"] = "D:/content.html";
}

Instead of a local file, is it possible for Fiddler to reply with a web page hosted on a remote server? Something like this...

if (oSession.uriContains("keyword")) {
  oSession["x-replywithfile"] = "https://www.domain.com/content.html";
}

Thank you!

Alex

[Nick Iliev]

Hi Alex,

 

The x-replywithfile autoresponder flag utilizes the local file system and can't be used to access online resources available through the HTTP protocol. You would need to explicitly access this resource through an HTTP request, decode its body, and then use it to modify your own response body.

 

Regards,
Nick Iliev
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[Alex]

> You would need to explicitly access this resource through an HTTP request

All right, is there a FiddlerScript instruction for this?

I searched the web for a few minutes, and all I found was this, but the article was not referring to how to compose a HTTP(S) request from a script.

Thank you!

Alex

[Nick Iliev]

 

You can modify a request or response as shown in this documentation article. You can redirect all requests from one server to another as shown:

// Point all requests for one server to the same port on a different server
if (oSession.HostnameIs("www.example.com")) {
    oSession.hostname="test.example.com";
}

// Point all requests for one port to a different port on a different server
if (oSession.host=="www.example.com:8080") {
      oSession.host="test.example.com:9090";
}

// Point all requests for one server to a different server, including HTTPS tunnels
// Redirect traffic, including HTTPS tunnels
if (oSession.HTTPMethodIs("CONNECT") && (oSession.PathAndQuery == "www.example.com:443")) { 
        oSession.PathAndQuery = "beta.example.com:443"; 
 }
if (oSession.HostnameIs("www.example.com")) oSession.hostname = "beta.example.com"; 

If the modification happens after the request is executed, then you should modify the response body with utilSetResponseBody.

oSession.utilSetResponseBody(oBody);

 

If you need to obtain data from another endpoint, you can use the sendRequestAndWait method to issue the new request.

var oSD = new System.Collections.Specialized.StringDictionary();
var newSession = FiddlerApplication.oProxy.SendRequestAndWait(oSession.oRequest.headers, oSession.requestBodyBytes, oSD, null);

if (newSession.responseCode == 200)
{
    // custom code here
}

 

As a side note, in the context of our conversation about the Rules tab compared to FiddlerScript. This is one case where the above can be achieved easily using the Rules tab (in Fiddler Everywhere) or the AutoResponder (in Fiddler Classic).

An example of a similar rule in Fiddler Everywhere:

[Alex]

I believe the 'sendRequestAndWait' instruction is what I need.

Thank you!