Telerik Fiddler version 4.6 (and v2.6 targeting .NET2) is now available for download. The new version includes several new features and dozens of tweaks and bugfixes, described in this article. View > Tabs Menu The new View > Tabs menu offers a list of tabs that are hidden by default. The Preferences command displays aContinue reading “What’s New in Fiddler 4.6”
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API Testing with Telerik Fiddler
Fiddler has long been the tool of choice for developers and testers who are building and verifying APIs exposed over HTTP(S). In this post, we’ll explore the existing features Fiddler offers for API Testing and announce new capabilities we’ve released in Fiddler 2.6/4.6. Composing API Calls The Composer tab enables the authoring of arbitrary HTTP(S)Continue reading “API Testing with Telerik Fiddler”
Attribution Error
In life, you sometimes encounter people with “high standards”—folks who often find others’ behavior lacking in some way. Such people usually explain: “Sure, I have high standards… but I hold myself to an even higher standard!” Except… they rarely do. The problem is that, as humans, we’re subject to both fundamental attribution error and actor-observer bias. TheseContinue reading “Attribution Error”
Tuning MemoryStream
By day, I build the Fiddler Web Debugger. I’ve recently started integrating telemetry collection into the application for automated exception reporting and to collect information about the user’s environment to ensure that Fiddler testing environments match real-world usage. The data is fascinating (and I’ll probably blog more about it later), but one data point inContinue reading “Tuning MemoryStream”
On Defaults
Yesterday, Chris Beard, the CEO of Mozilla, wrote an open letter to Microsoft complaining about Windows 10’s behavior related to default applications. Reactions were all over the board, but in my Twitter feed, at least, they mostly skewed against Mozilla. With the perspective of having been both inside and outside Microsoft, I feel compelled toContinue reading “On Defaults”
Stupid (useful) Windows Shell Tricks
RunAsUser Back in the Windows Vista timeframe, the existing RunAs verb for ShellExecute was changed. Instead of prompting the user to run the target as a different user (e.g. the experience you get when you Shift-Right-Click on an app) it instead would treat the call as “Run the target as an Elevated Administrator”. Well, whatContinue reading “Stupid (useful) Windows Shell Tricks”
An A+ HTTPS site for $20
Building a HTTPS-secured website is easier than it’s ever been.
Organizational Awareness
I’ve found myself a bit stalled in writing my memoir, so I’m going to post a few stories here in the hopes of breaking free of writer’s block… The use of first names and email aliases at Microsoft could easily lead to confusion for new employees. A few weeks into my first summer (1999) atContinue reading “Organizational Awareness”
Microsoft Edge Bugs and Omissions
I tweet about the new Microsoft Edge browser quite a lot. I wanted to have a blog post to collect some of the feedback I’ve provided so I have it in one place and can update as needed. Note: This post mostly focuses on the bad parts of Edge; there are plenty of good parts,Continue reading “Microsoft Edge Bugs and Omissions”
Zopfli All The Things
I’ve written about Zopfli quite a bit in the past, and even wrote a tool to apply it to PNG files. For fun, I had a look at one of the most optimized pages in the world: Google.com, through the lens of Zopfli. Here are the basic resources delivered by the Google homepage: This breakdownContinue reading “Zopfli All The Things”
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