Fiddler and MACs

Santa has responded to my wish for Fiddler on a MAC.  He says:

"You can, however, run Fiddler on a Windows machine, and point the Mac's proxy settings at WINMACHINE:8888. If Fiddler is configured to allow remote clients to connect, it will successfully proxy the traffic from the Mac. It's non-trivial, but it does work."

Cool trick!

Published Wed, Nov 28 2007 7:09 by sandi
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# re: Fiddler and MACs

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:06 PM by F. Engelmann

That's a good workaround, assuming Windows machines are allowed on your network - not the case here for security reasons.

One alternative is to run a VM under a Linux or OS X host, which makes a great test machine. Backup your clean install as a disk image; corrupt the working copy as needed; then toss the corrupted disk image and start over.

Another alternative is to use privoxy as an HTTP proxy, and use its logging to trace redirects or other malicious activity. We'll use similar functions in our WatchGuard firewall to help trace malicious banner ads and/or javascript for Sandi.

# re: Fiddler and MACs

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:53 PM by sandi

Regarding VMs, that's doesn't always guarantee true results, at least it doesn't when working with malware, which can be coded to check whether it is running in a VM, and behave differently if that environment is detected.