I’ve long been a Fiddler fan. It’s been a super valuable tool for debugging SOAP and REST based code.
It rocks, but I often need to debug on the Mac, especially now when doing network programming in Silverlight.
So I recently found WireShark.
It’s free, runs on Windows and Mac, is Open Source, and there are 3rd party builds for other operating systems.
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Wireshark is a great product.It is actually a rebranded from a previous name that you may or may not be familiar with called Ethereal.
WireShark is very useful, especially when using network services or equipment such as firewalls, enterprise fax solutions, etc. This allows you to look at the packets of data and truly see what’s going on. It is more robust than Fiddler. We use it all the time.
I have found burp suite or charles proxyworks great on the mac.
Thanks, sure useful!!
Wireshark may be overkill for some.If all you need is an http proxy so you can inspect the header and body you may want to try Apache axis.It has a little hidden gem called tcpmon.You don’t even need to install axis to use it – just have the jar files available.http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html#AppendixUsingTheAxisTCPMonitorTcpmonI've found this to be extremely helpful for simple needs.