Web Debugging using Fiddler.

Most of my day to day work involves working on Web Browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc). Many a times I am concerned over the data that is being transmitted from and to the Web browser. Sometime it becomes pain to figure the actual root cause of some issues related to Web browsers(Security issues, etc).

One of the tools that really help in indentifying the traffic from your web browser is Fiddler. Fiddler is web debugging tool that helps in identifying the information transmitted to and from the web browser. At runtime the traffic from WinINet’s HTTP(s) stack can be automatically directed through fiddler. All you have to do is start your fiddler, launch your web browser and then switch over to the fiddler to enjoy the transmission of the data over the net.

It can also be extended using .Net. So you can have your very own web debugger which you can play around with.

Enough said, try the fiddler here. Enjoy web debugging.