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SignalR: Real-time Application Development - Second Edition

You're reading from   SignalR: Real-time Application Development - Second Edition A fast-paced guide to develop, test, and deliver real-time communication in your .NET applications using SignalR

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285455
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Digging deeper into the communication

Logging is really helpful and can really save you a lot of time to figure out what is going on. However, sometimes, you need to go even deeper. At times, you need to look at the raw traffic. There are a few ways of doing this.

Looking under the cover with Fiddler

A popular, free, and very good debugging tool to debug HTTP traffic is Fiddler. You can download it for free at http://www.telerik.com/fiddler. It gives you the opportunity to monitor all HTTP requests happening on your computer.

Fiddler sets itself as a proxy between all traffic and in order to get the best experience from it, you need to enable streams, otherwise SignalR will fall back to long-polling, but not immediately (typically after 3-5 seconds), as shown in the following screenshot:

Looking under the cover with Fiddler

If the browser and server support web sockets, SignalR might choose to use this as its preferred transport. In this case, you want to open up the Log tab, as shown here:

Looking under the cover with Fiddler

On the Mac OS X side of things, there...

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