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”

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”

Book-Writing: Just Do It!

Sadly, you’re unlikely to get wealthy by writing a book. You should definitely write one anyway. My Background People I respect suggest you shouldn’t write (or buy) books on specific technologies, going so far as to say that writing a book was on their top-10 lists of life regrets. Top-10… whoa! As a consequence, whenContinue reading “Book-Writing: Just Do It!”

Repairing Corrupt ZIP Files

Fiddler’s default file format is the SAZ Format, which is just a ZIP file with a particular structure (I’ve written a lot about ZIPs). Unfortunately, sometimes users’ SAZ files get corrupted due to failing disks or incomplete downloads, and when this happens, Fiddler can no longer open them. Because Fiddler uses a standard ZIP file,Continue reading “Repairing Corrupt ZIP Files”

Reset Fiddler’s HTTPS certificates

I’ve made changes to the latest versions of Fiddler to improve the performance of certificate creation, and to avoid problems with new certificate validation logic coming to Chrome and Firefox. The biggest of the Fiddler changes is that CertEnroll is now the default certificate generator on Windows 7 and later. Unfortunately, this change can causeContinue reading “Reset Fiddler’s HTTPS certificates”