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So, I got this here laptop that has the monster Vista on it. All pretty like it is, just fun finding where things were moved or renamed. I’ve been doing some Flex development which of course means I need a traffic sniffer that can decode AMF, thus the use of ServiceCapture. Personally I like Charles better, easier to setup for starters, but alas I’ve been dealt ServiceCapture. In the end they do the same job, so go go go.

The problem is upon installing ServiceCapture I could not get it to work with Firefox. Yes, I did point the auto proxy setting to the firefox.js file, but it would not work. Well, I finally figured it out last night, permissions. Right click the firefox.js file and change the permissions on it. I’ll leave it to you the reader to decide what level you wish to use, I just granted everyone full control myself. Now it works a treat. SC really needs a FF plugin to handle this though, like Charles does, makes it mucho easier.

aha! SwitchProxy! Check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/125 for a proxy switcher. This allows the automagic proxy pointer to a file option. THis way you can create a proxy entry called service capture and easily switch between no proxy and service capture. Nice!

Now, if only I could get ServiceCapture working with IE7 on Vista.
[edit] Let me be more specific, it works in IE7 on Vista, but not for the current app I’m working on that is Flex based hitting webservices via HTTPS.

DK