Mo's Blog - Security & Stuff

Monthly Archive: September 2018

fiddler

Troubleshooting / Web Traffic

How To Use Fiddler To Troubleshoot HTTP/HTTPS Issues

Fiddler is a very effective tool when it comes to troubleshooting HTTP & HTTPS issues… It’s basically a local proxy that intercepts all HTTP/HTTPS traffic either from all applications or just the application you configure it to… Fiddler configures itself as a local proxy on port 8888, processes traffic from the client application and then forwards it to the web server so it behaves like any proxy server except that it displays all information in the client application & allows for on the fly HTTPS decryption without the need for server certificate to decrypt traffic.

A Needle In A Haystack

Troubleshooting / Wireshark

Wireshark – How To Easily Find A TCP Session In A Huge Capture File

Troubleshooting a specific TCP session in a Wireshark packet capture should be an easy or difficult task depending on the nature of the problem that’s being investigated, what can be cumbersome is actually finding that session in the middle of a huge capture file or even a running capture with...