I am trying to debug the server component of a mobile application. Are there any tools that will allow me to send a HTTPS request and view the response? At the moment I have a Windows computer next to a Mac.
Fiddler supports HTTPS. It's Windows-only, but you didn't specify a platform. There's plenty of others whatever your platform, though.
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I have a website that uses HTTPS so it is secure by default.
I am aiming to send some HTTP requests from the website, but the problem is that modern versions of web browsers do not allow the use of HTTP requests inside of HTTPS sites.
So, what I am trying to do here is to make a portion of my website un-secure using HTTP instead of HTTPS, so that I can send the requests I want.
Is that possible?
If there are any other suggestions to send HTTP requests, please help me with it.
I'm running an asp.net core web application secured by ssl.
I need to send an ajax request to a local-network device which does not offer https.
So I try to send an ajax http request to a local ip adress (eg. http://192.168.1.30/hello-world) from a https browser window showing my web-app.
The url of the ajax request always gets converted into https://192.168.1.30/hello-world (which does not exist).
Is there anyway to avoid this? The device does not offer https and I can't send a local request from an insecured source.
Thank you!
I have a web application hosted in servlet container. It is making call to google sheet api to create google sheet. It is throwing GoogleJsonResponseException with message 401 unauthorized. I want to see HTTP traffic between client program and google server. How to do that? Any other way to debug?
I use two tools for this purpose, both free. The first is Fiddler from Telerik. This tool is an http proxy that intercepts your traffic and lets you dissect the underling http. I have found though that not all traffic is intercepted. I use it on Windows and I think it intercepts traffic that runs thru http.sys.
My second tool is Wireshark which is a network packet sniffer and intercepts http traffic that sometimes does not get picked up by Fiddler.
There is tons of articles and tutorials on how to use both tools. If your traffic is using SSL/TLS then it can be tricky to setup. I have had success with Fiddler, but not Wireshark, even where I had the private key.
Both tools are indispensable.
I have one wordpress website, in that am getting lot of errors day by day. So I like to change my normal HTTP to HTTPS. So please can you explain it is very useful and secure for my website.
If your website does not have https in the web link this means that you do not have installed SSL. Most of the modern web browsers treat any website without SSL installed as insecure. This may be one of the reasons for your website's issues.
I found the following answers to the question of the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.
Difference between HTTP and HTTPS
To know about the reasons for using SSL follow the link given below:
Reasons for using SSL
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http is an unencrypted protocol for sending and retrieving data from servers in a web browser (among other uses). https is the same protocol but wrapper in SSL, a security tool that encrypts communications between the browser and server. This is what what banks and other websites use to ensure your data (like financial info) is protected when sent to your browser and cannot be read by someone on the same network.
Checkout articles like this and google the topic for more info.
Hope this helps.
I need to track http/url requests & redirects from a windows forms application using C#. It should handle both IE & firefox. Not sure if Fiddler is open-source but if i'm not mistaken, it's written using .NET. Sample codes or online articles on how to listen to http/url requests & redirects will be appreciated.
Thanks!
Fiddler works as standard HTTP proxy. There is no magic here. See HTTP protocol for details. In both IE/Firefox, you need to set Fiddler (or your custom program) as proxy, and then browser will use it for all outgoing requests. Proxy is responsible for forwarding request to correct server, and returning response. Proxies are typically used for 1) caching, 2) controlling access (and avoiding firewalls), 3) debugging.
See also Open Source Proxy Library for .Net for .NET proxy library (just quick googling... I have no experience with it).
You'd probably be interested in the new FiddlerCore library: http://fiddler.wikidot.com/fiddlercore