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Fiddler and localhost

I would like to share a really useful trick if you need to use Fiddler with a website running on the localhost (i.e. ASP.NET Developer Server or Cassini). Open-mouthed

Fiddler will not recognize your address in this form…

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…but it will work if you replace “localhost” with “ipv4.fiddler”!

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More info: http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp

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Posted: Thursday, November 27, 2008 5:23 PM by gisardo
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# November 27, 2008 1:04 PM

Nick said:

You can also - as I saw this being done at TechEd last month change localhost: to localhost.:

A little less typing ;)

# December 1, 2008 10:48 AM
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