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how to hide http request using vb.net

I'm developing new app. This is app need to get information from my website so I use HTTP request using vb.net. 

Sub Main()
'Address of URL
Dim URL As String = http://whatever.com
' Get HTML data
Dim client As WebClient = New WebClient()
Dim data As Stream = client.OpenRead(URL)
Dim reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(data)
Dim str As String = ""
str = reader.ReadLine()
Do While str.Length > 0
    Console.WriteLine(str)
    str = reader.ReadLine()
Loop

My problem is , I found an app called fiddler http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

This app could find all HTTP request that maked using my app , so this put my website at risk.

Is There any way how to hide HTTP request from been detected ????

Solution

  • I'm not familiar with this "fiddler" product, but just from reading the page that you reference, it is something that runs on the user's machine and monitors traffic between that computer and the Internet. I don't see how it would be even theoretically possible to prevent this. Signals are moving over wires leaving the user's computer. He presumably has physical access to his own computer. If nothing else, he could attach something to the cable coming out the back of the computer that monitors the signals moving over the wire.

    You could encrypt messages so that it's difficult for the user to interpret what they mean, but you can't stop him from reading the message as it was sent.

    I wonder, by the way, how it is a security problem for a user to know what messages are being sent from his own computer. Are you trying to hide what you are doing from the person using your program? Frankly, if I discovered that an application I have on my computer was trying to hide what it was doing from me, I would immediately delete it. Why would someone want to hide what he's doing to MY computer unless what he is doing is something sinister, trying to steal my personal data or some such?

    Just to be slightly sarcastic, your question sounds a little like asking, When I visit a business associate, how can I prevent him from finding out out what I did in his office when he stepped out for a few minutes?