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Fiddler vs skipfish

A side-by-side look at Fiddler and skipfish. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Fiddler

Fiddler

Development

Fiddler is a free web debugging proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. It allows developers to inspect traffic, set breakpoints, and fiddle with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler can be used to debug traffic from virtually any application that supports a proxy like web browsers, mobile apps, IoT devices, and more.

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skipfish

skipfish

Security & Privacy

Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. Skipfish is useful for quickly analyzing web applications for potential security flaws.

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