Is there an unrecoverable version of Fiddler or its equivalent?

Question

One of my clients is currently waiting for his IT department to install Fiddler on his desktop so that he can debug his web application ... Obviously, his desktop requires IT administrator rights to install anything.

Is there a non-installed version of Fiddler, that is, a standalone exe (additional files in order) or an equivalent program that can be launched with the thumb or local folder?

Answer 1

No, Fiddler does not add hooks that require administrative permissions. You can simply copy the Fiddler folder from the Program Files folder to the desktop of any user you want and run it directly from there.

The only thing you do not get in the “XCOPY” installation is the buttons associated with Fiddler in browsers (for example, IE and Firefox), because they are installed by the installer, and if you do not run the installer, you will not get browser extensions.

Answer 2

In fact, Fiddler does not need to be installed:

• Download the Fiddler setting (e.g. fiddler4setup.exe)
• Open it using the Archive Manager (i.e. 7-Zip )
• Extract files to a folder
• Run Fiddler.exe File

Answer 3

You can try either Burp ( http://portswigger.net/burp/ ) or web scarab ( http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project ). Both of them are written in Java, downloaded as zip files and do not require administrator rights ... but java. If they do not fit, you can try one of the many other standalone web proxies ( http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Phoenix/Tools#HTTP_proxying_.2F_editing ) or the Firefox plugin ( http: //www.owasp .org / index.php / Phoenix / Tools # Browser-based_HTTP_tampering_.2F_editing_.2F_replaying ).

If the application is developed using Eclipse: it also has some simple traffic monitoring tools

Answer 4

There is a TCP / IP sniffer called SmartSniff , which does not require installation.

Answer 5

You can try FiddlerCap, which is a lightweight version of Fiddler (using FiddlerCore) in the sense that it captures traffic and stores it in the Fiddler archive. This requires a default installation, but you can avoid this if you:

• First install FiddlerCap download on another machine. This basically makes only the extract. You can simply distribute the files to the target target machine.

• Add the FiddlerCap folder on the target machine to the PATH environment variable, since it should find FiddlerCore.dll in this folder.