Tool to monitor HTTP, TCP, etc. Web Service traffic

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huseyint picture huseyint · Sep 23, 2008 · Viewed 133.5k times · Source

What's the best tool that you use to monitor Web Service, SOAP, WCF, etc. traffic that's coming and going on the wire? I have seen some tools that made with Java but they seem to be a little crappy. What I want is a tool that sits in the middle as a proxy and does port redirection (which should have configurable listen/redirect ports). Are there any tools work on Windows to do this?

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Mark Cidade picture Mark Cidade · Sep 23, 2008

For Windows HTTP, you can't beat Fiddler. You can use it as a reverse proxy for port-forwarding on a web server. It doesn't necessarily need IE, either. It can use other clients.

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