Fiddler/Firebug for Adobe AIR?

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Fiddler/Firebug for Adobe AIR?

How does one inspect the HTTP traffic in Adobe Air? Obviously because it's running outside of a browser you can't use firebug ...

I've tried this link text

but it doesn't work either... (nothing shows up in the log). I also don't really want to pay for a program.

Any ideas?

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Wireshark will do that - it works at the network level, so it will work with any web technology.

The most important thing to know about is the right-click "Follow TCP/IP stream" command, which will show you your app's HTTP conversation.

RichieHindle 2009-08-22 18:18:39

thanks..installed on win7, looks like this is what I need. Where is this 'follow tcp/ip stream' option though?

dmose 2009-08-22 18:34:56

@dmose: It's on the right-click menu when you right-click on a sequence of captured network packets.

RichieHindle 2009-08-22 18:38:38

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Try Fiddler: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

Alfred Myers 2009-08-22 18:30:23

I have fiddler but it only captures browser traffic..Adobe Air runs outside of the browser..

dmose 2009-08-22 18:38:46

Nope... From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250446(VS.85).aspx, " Fiddler is an HTTP debugging proxy that logs **all HTTP traffic** between your computer and the Internet". Then later it states "Microsoft Windows Internet Services (WinInet), the HTTP layer used by Internet Explorer". I've successfully used it with a lot of applications bisides the browser. Maybe Adobe AIR does not go through WinInet.

Alfred Myers 2009-08-22 18:57:57

You're absolutely right. My problem was I was testing on an asp.net development server on port 59003 ... when i made a standard request to :80 it worked! thnks.

dmose 2009-08-22 19:06:50

Fiddler can capture traffic to any port. When debugging traffic bound for Localhost, you need to do some tricks though: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler/help/hookup.asp#Q-LocalTraffic

EricLaw -MSFT- 2009-08-22 21:39:53

+1 A:

Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) works very well with AIR and has built-in AMF decoding, allowing the inspection of AMF requests/responses.

Peter Dolukhanov 2009-08-25 15:46:49

I use this all the time, well worth the license cost.

davr 2009-12-02 20:23:15

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I believe both [HTTPScoop] (for mac) and [HTTP Analyzer] (Windows) will let you watch HTTP traffic from non-browser programs (I can see requests made by the Google Notifier, for example).

Apparently, I can't post hyperlinks because the account is "new", but these are the urls:

tuffcode.com/

ieinspector.com/httpanalyzer/

Chris R 2009-08-26 01:53:10

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