How to configure Fiddler to listen to localhost?

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The Light picture The Light · Jan 10, 2011 · Viewed 109k times · Source

I want to monitor HTTP traffic between a process on my local machine and another (server) process, also running on my local machine.

How can I configure Fiddler to listen to traffic to and from localhost?

Answer

Tomer picture Tomer · Sep 11, 2013

By simply adding fiddler to the url

http://localhost.fiddler:8081/

Traffic is routed through fiddler and therefore being displayed on fiddler.

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