Since moving to Google at the beginning of 2016, I’ve gained some perspective about my work on Fiddler over the prior 12+ years. Mostly, I’m happy about what I accomplished, although I’m a bit awed about how much work I put into it, and how big my “little side project” turned out to be.
It’s been interesting to see where the team at Telerik has taken the tool since then. Some things I’m not so psyched about (running the code through an obfuscator has been a source of bugs and annoyance), but the one feature I think is super-cool is support for writing FiddlerScript in C#. That’s a feature I informally supported via an extension, but foolishly (in hindsight) never invested in baking into the tool itself. That’s despite the fact that JScript.NET is a bit of an abomination which is uncomfortable for both proper JavaScript developers and .NET developers. But I digress… C# FiddlerScript is really neat, and even though it may take a bit of effort to port the many existing example FiddlerScript snippets, I think many .NET developers will find it worthwhile.
I’ve long been hesitant about adopting the more fancy features of the modern .NET framework, LINQ key among them. For a while, I justified this as needing Fiddler to work on the bare .NET 2.0 framework, but that excuse is long gone. And I’ll confess, after using LINQ in FiddlerScript, it feels awkward and cumbersome not to.
To use LINQ in FiddlerScript, you must be using the C# scripting engine and you must add System.core.dll inside Tools > Fiddler Options > Scripting. Then, add using System.Linq; to the top of your C# script file.
After you make these changes, you can do things like:
var arrSess = FiddlerApplication.UI.GetAllSessions();
bool b = arrSess.Any(s=>s.HostnameIs("Example.com"));
FiddlerApplication.UI.SetStatusText((b) ? "Found it!":"Didn't find it.");
-Eric Lawrence
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