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Becca
Becca

Reputation: 1580

Random sessions using Fiddler

all,

I use Fiddler for developing and debugging Web apps, and I find that random stuff shows up in the list of "sessions" after I turn off Capture Traffic. It's perhaps a few items every ten or fifteen minutes. I know this is a really broad question, but is there some way to figure out why these things are showing up and what they are?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 164

Answers (2)

EricLaw
EricLaw

Reputation: 57085

The Capture Traffic setting controls whether or not Fiddler is registered as the system's proxy server. Most clients (Internet Explorer, etc) will react to the system proxy setting at runtime, so that when you disable the Capture traffic setting, they'll stop sending traffic to Fiddler.

However, some clients (particularly .NET applications) do not react to proxy setting changes and always use whatever proxy was set when the client was started; they'll continue to send traffic to Fiddler until the client is restarted.

You can examine the Process column in Fiddler to see what client isn't properly reacting to changes in the system's proxy setting.

Upvotes: 2

Konstantin
Konstantin

Reputation: 3294

You likely have web pages open that periodically hit the server from within javascript (ajax calls), fiddler captures that traffic and that's what you're seeing.

Upvotes: 0

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