In Progress Telerik Fiddler Web Debugger is there a way to adjust Content-Length automatically in AutoResponder? - telerik

Question

I am using fiddler autoresponder to return a different JS file than the one loaded from my server originally. The adjusted file uses:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private, max-age=31536000
Content-Type: application/javascript
...other headers
Content-Length: 37010
...the javascript code
At the top of the file, this Content-Length header is not automatically adjusted to the edited file though. So I have to try and load my changes, my app will crash because the Content-Length is wrong, but then I check fiddlers 'transformer' tab to see how many bytes my request body actually is, update that in my modified file, refresh again and then it works.
I have tried to change the encoding to chunked, so that I could leave out the Content-Length header, but I don't think my app knows how to decode chunked for some reason.
So my question is, is there any way to automatically update the Content-Length in the auto-responder?

Answer 1

You can simply use FiddlerScript in Fiddler classic to build your auto responder. That way the content-length is set automatically:
static function OnBeforeRequest(oSession: Session) {
// ... some other FiddlerScript code
// host is e.g. "localhost:3000"
if (oSession.HostnameIs("<host>") && oSession.uriContains("<file name>.js")) {
oSession.utilCreateResponseAndBypassServer();
oSession["ui-backcolor"] = "lime"; // Makes it more visible
if (!oSession.LoadResponseFromFile("<file path>.js")) {
throw new ApplicationException("LoadResponseFromFile Failed!! ");
}
// Just loads forever if Content-Length is not added
oSession.oResponse["Content-Length"] = oSession.responseBodyBytes.GetLength(0);
}
}