Environment: NetBeans 7.0.1, GlassFish 3.1
I want to sniff the communication between a WCF (.NET Framework 4) client and a Metro (2.1.1) web service, and then check the messages to be sure everything is how I want it to be. The web service uses Transport Security (SSL). I already know of Fiddler, but I did not have any success using it; only HTTPS browser traffic was visible. Is there a way to set up Fiddler to capture traffic between my services? Is there any other way?
UPDATE
I tried to start client and server on different machines and then use Fiddler, but no success. I tried Wireshark to capture traffic, but did not have any success running both on localhost. If i tried them on different machines, all I could see was TCP data exchange between the services.
On localhost + Wireshark, the packet counter next to the interfaces remained the same however I was calling the service lots of times.
UPDATE2
Tried to set up the proxy for NetBeans manually in the options, and programatically, but no success:
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "localhost");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "8888");
System.setProperty("https.proxyHost", "localhost");
System.setProperty("https.proxyPort", "8888");
Tried to start GlassFish with these JVM options, but no :( :
<jvm-options>-Dhttp.proxyHost=localhost</jvm-options>
<jvm-options>-Dhttp.proxyPort=8888</jvm-options>
<jvm-options>-Dhttps.proxyHost=localhost</jvm-options>
<jvm-options>-Dhttps.proxyPort=8888</jvm-options>
As an alternative to Fiddler, if you control the WCF client, you could enable WCF Message Logging, and it will save all the unencrypted SOAP messages to a trace log. The logging can be enabled in the app.config file, so you don't even have to rebuild the app to enable or disable the logging.