Connect to Visual Studio server from remote machine using Fiddler and HTTPS

Question

I am trying to connect to a Visual Studio server from a remote machine using Fiddler and HTTPS. I followed this tutorial (http://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/Configure-Fiddler/Tasks/UseFiddlerAsReverseProxy) which works perfectly for HTTP. When I moved my project to HTTPS, the connection stopped working. I have tried several solutions, including:

• Proxying HTTPS traffic through Fiddler fails for remote clients?
• http://lifelongprogrammer.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/using-fiddler-as-https-reverse-proxy.html

but haven't been able to get it to work. Can someone help?

Answer 1

You haven't explained what happens, but my guess is that your client is trying to do a HTTPS handshake with Fiddler, which is expecting HTTP because you didn't tell it to do anything else.

In Fiddler's QuickExec box, type

!listen 444 FiddlerMachineName

This will create a new HTTPS-accepting endpoint running at https://FiddlerMachineName:444 and Fiddler will perform a HTTPS handshake on all inbound connections. You can then use FiddlerScript to forward requests to the target service.