I threw together some notes for someone doing a presentation about Fiddler.

News

· Fiddler 2.5 should be out shortly. Most of the “new” goodies are in 2.4.9.9 but are yet to be discovered by most users.

· Hopefully, the second edition of the Fiddler Book will be out in the next month.

Things to consider talking about

Please ensure that everyone has the SyntaxView Inspector installed. It’s by-far the most useful extension for Fiddler.

The ImageBloat extension, of course.

The Content Security Policy rule generator add-on

This menu item resolves ~40% of Fiddler support questions:

They’ve been there a while, but Fiddler can import/export Packet Captures (from Wireshark, Message Analyzer, Netmon, TCPDump) and HAR (HTTP Archive files, from browser dev tools):

It’s been there a while, but Customize Columns is possibly the top-requested feature and it continues to get more powerful

Tools > Configure AutoSave…

Direct Filters on the Context Menu

2.5 will introduce built-in WebSockets UI

Support for WebP and JPEGXR throughout the product

Composer now has a Request Log for easy reuse of past requests

Fiddler’s built-in Certificate Maker can generate iOS-compatible certificates using the Cert Enroll engine