Using Fiddler for NodeJS Application

[Tony]

Hi All,

I need to reverse engineer HTTPS web requests that a node-JS application is making.  Unfortunately the app hasn't been coded with Proxy support and it does not respect system proxy settings.

I'd like to redirect all requests for "BuggedDomain" through fiddler and pipe them to 192.168.0.10.

 

My understanding is that I need to do the following:

1.  Add this to my host file:

127.0.0.1 BuggedDomain

2. Run this command in Fiddler:

!listen 443 BuggedDomain

3.

Add something like this to my Fiddler Script:

if ((oSession.HostnameIs("buggeddomain")) && (oSession.oRequest.pipeClient.LocalPort == 443) ) 
        {
            oSession.bypassGateway = true;
            oSession["x-overrideHost"] = "192.168.0.10";
            
        }

 

But i'm not seeing any of the requests from the app show up.

Any thoughts?

[Simeon]

Hi Tony,

I tried to reproduce your issue by using Fiddler as a reverse proxy for a web site dir.bg and opening it from a web browser and I succeeded. I did the following:
1. Added 127.0.0.1 dir.bg to my hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
2. Added this inside the OnBeforeRequest handler:

•     oSession["x-overrideHost"] = "194.145.63.12";
  }

Please, note that I do not need to bypass the gateway. If there are any proxies and firewalls in your organization they will stop Fiddler to forward the request to the server.
3. From Tools\Options HTTPS I checked the 'Ignore server certificate errors' option - this is because in the FiddlerScript we are overriding the host with an IP address and Fiddler will expect the server to authenticate with a certificate with a Subject CN = "194.145.63.12" but the server is authenticating with a Subject CN = "dir.bg"
4. Turned off the capturing to make sure that the browser will not use the proxy settings pointing to Fiddler listenning on the 8888 port.
5. Ran the command !listen 443 dir.bg

Then when I opened the website from the browser, Fiddler captured the HTTPS session. However, I have to mention that while I was testing I opened the website with Chrome without the setup and I believed that Chrome cached the IP of the site for some time because the session didn't show up. I had to use other browsers.

So maybe your node-JS app "knows" the IP of the server and does not respect the hosts file as well.

I hope I was helpful.

Regards,
Simeon
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