Fiddler Inspector for Federation Messages

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Published on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:33:52 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/06 17:00 UTC
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Fiddler is a very useful tool for troubleshooting all kinds of HTTP(s) communications. It also features various extensibility points to make it even more useful.

Using the inspector extensibility mechanism, I quickly knocked up an inspector for typical federation messages (thanks for Eric Lawrence btw). Below is a screenshot for WS-Federation.

I also added support for SAML 2.0p request/response messages:

The inspector can be downloaded from the identitymodel Codeplex site. Simply copy the binary to the inspector folder in the Fiddler directory.

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