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Support Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate

WebSockets offer a mechanism for doing compression of messages. Fiddler's WebSocket Inspector should provide a simpler means of viewing such content.

The mechanism looks to be a simple DEFLATE operation: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7692

Eric Lawrence
Nov 23 2016
Future consideration

Feature Enhancement

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Eric Lawrence commented

November 23, 2016 18:34
Note, supporting permessage-deflate without the
```
    client_no_context_takeover
```
```
    server_no_context_takeover
```
parameters (meaning that context takeover is allowed) likely would be pretty tricky because I don't think the DEFLATE code inside Fiddler is able to reuse a single compression context across multiple operations.
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Eric Lawrence commented

November 23, 2016 18:26

Workarounds Today:

Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate;client_max_window_bits=15

If you need to manipulate this stream, you could write a FiddlerScript rule that removes this header from the WebSocket handshake and this should force the communication to fall back to uncompressed traffic.

Alternatively, on a one-off basis, you can use the Inspect As Response button to add a message to the WebSessions list:

Use F2 to enable editing of the response and add a Content-Encoding: deflate header:

Hit F2 to save the change, and you can now use the Transformer or yellow bar to decompress the text:

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