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What’s New in Fiddler 4.6.2

TLDR? – Get the newest Fiddler here. It’s been just over two months since the last significant release, and Fiddler 4.6.2.0 (and v2.6.2.0) are now available. As always, the latest build includes a slew of bugfixes and minor tweaks, as well as a number of features described in this post. Default Certificate Generator Changed ChangesContinue reading “What’s New in Fiddler 4.6.2”

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 69,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many peopleContinue reading “2015 in review”

My Next Adventure

Back in 2004, I couldn’t get the tiny IE team interested in fixing caching bugs that were causing my team’s website to break in bizarre and unpredictable ways. I figured I’d hop over there, fix some bugs, and move along. I quickly realized that I was hopelessly in love with browsers in general and securityContinue reading “My Next Adventure”

Segue

My last day at Telerik is December 31st, 2015. More soon… Here’s a copy of my “Last day” blog post for posterity. Fiddler—A Segue by Eric Lawrence December 22, 2015 Productivity, Debugging11 Comments In September 2012, Telerik completed the acquisition of the Fiddler Web Debugger, and I announced that I would join Telerik to upgrade my side project to my full-time job.Continue reading “Segue”

Certificates Matter

Recently, my web host stopped supporting the FrontPage Server Extensions used by Microsoft Expression Web 4 for website publishing (FPSE is now out-of-support). FPSE allowed me to publish to my site over a HTTPS connection, helping keep my password safe and my uploaded files unmodified. Unfortunately, the alternative FTP transport is completely insecure–passwords and dataContinue reading “Certificates Matter”