Fiddler

There is much to like about Fiddler, a web debugging proxy offered by developer Telerik. You will like that it is easy and simple to install, that it has an easy to navigate interface, that you can check out a video tutorial to help you get started, that it will work with any web browser, and that it will help you record, inspect, and debug traffic.

The system requirements for running Fiddler are as follows: 1GHz processor or better, at least 512MB of RAM memory (2GB or more recommended), 8MB of free disk space, .NET Framework 4.0 or newer, Windows operating system (anything from XP up to 8.1).

Once you’re done installing Fiddler, your default browser will launch and you will be directed to a “First Run” webpage. Among other things, this webpage links to videos that will help you quickly get started with Fiddler. Check them out if you have any problems figuring out how to use Fiddler.

Fiddler is a free web debugging proxy. From a functionality point of view, you can expect to get the following from this application: it works with multiple browsers, you can monitor HTTP and HTTPS traffic from any browser, inspect and debug traffic, manipulate and edit web sessions, test a web site’s performance, decrypt HTTPS web sessions, filter captured traffic, and more.

Seeing that Fiddler is a free tool, you have all the time in the world to uncover all the functionality it has to offer.

Go get Fiddler and you’ll see it is a properly good web debugging proxy.