Fiddler Inspector for Federation Messages. Fiddler is a great tool to help debug specific issues associated with how the messages look on the wire. Fiddler is especially relevant in troubleshooting interop issues or to see if a request was received and a response sent during the federation dance.
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- EAS Inspector for Fiddler will provide users with a sample application to showcase the process of decoding Exchange Server ActiveSync (EAS) WBXML into XML within a Fiddler Inspector environment.
- Example Request. Let us create a sample SOAP request with authorization. It should contain a simple username, a password, and the WSS-TimeToLive property. For this example, preemptive authentication must be enabled.
Date Published: 19 December 2009
If you’re doing any work with WCF (and perhaps Silverlight, for example, but any client will do) and you’d like to maximize the performance of your messages, you’re probably using binary encoding as it’s much less verbose than other options. However, this makes tools like Fiddler much less useful when it comes to debugging why the thing isn’t doing what you thought it was doing, because by default Fiddler doesn’t have a useful view of such messages.
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Well, look no further. There is a WCF Binary-encoded Message Inspector for Fiddler which solves this need. It’s free and hosted on code.msdn.microsoft.com. You can read more about it on the Functional Fun blog.
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At work, I had to look into request/response compression in WCF with .NET 3.5. In order to be sure whether what I’m doing had had the desired effect, I had to force Fiddler to capture the client-server SOAP traffic. So now I’ll try to summarize what I learned.
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The process consists of four steps:
- Hosting the web service
- Setting up Fiddler reverse proxy
- Modifying the WS’ WSDL file
- Setting up the client
- Calling the service via Fiddler’s proxy
First, you need to host your service somewhere. In my example, I used the IIS 7.5 and set it to listen locally at port 555.
Then you have to set up the reverse proxy, which gathers requests from various sources (servers) and forwards them to its client (in this case, your service). In this scenario, this is useful because you might have difficulties routing the communication between your testing client (be it the default WCF Test Client, SoapUI, a smartphone or what have you) and the service.
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To set it up in Fiddler, you first have to go to Tools | Fiddler options | Connections. Set the proxy port to the desired value; in my case, 8888.
Then you have to forward the traffic, coming to the proxy, to the WCF service in question. Go to Rules | Custom Rules. In the OnBeforeRequest method, add the redirecting.
You’re almost ready to go. Now the only remaining obstacle is the definition (WSDL) file your service generates. The .svc automatically generates a WSDL that contains the endpoint address in a few places; the local address is automatically inserted. If you tried to create a reference using this WSDL, your WCF Test Client would go directly to the service instead of going through the proxy. So copy the WSDL file, replace all original endpoints with your proxy (in this case, localhost:8888) and save it; then give it to the Test Client to create the reference from.
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And that’s it, you’re set. You can call the service and any all communication will be logged by Fiddler and forwarded to your service hosted on the IIS.