Thursday, August 27, 2009

Filtering Mechanisms in Fiddler: Can we see filtered http calls made through a particular Application?

Yes, Fiddler provide very efficient ways to filter http requests generated through particular application. Here are the steps to achieve this:

- Launch fiddler
- Start your Application
- Launch Fiddler
- Go to Filter tab on right hand side
- Check "Use Filters" option
- Now all filter parameters will be enabled.
- Go to "Client process" section
- Check option : "Show traffic only from"
- Now a dropdown will be enabled >> Select the exe you want to monitor
- This dropdown shows all the processes running on your machine

Apart from this, there are different type of Filters.

1. Filtering on the basis of Hosts. E.g.- you can opt to see only those calls which are made on www.google.com
2. You can also opt for seeing calls which are failing by selecting option for hiding success calls :)
3. We can filter on the basis on content : Images, Text, HTTP, Scripts...

Explore Filter Menu in details....

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