"Require Proxy Authentication" option not saved permanent

[Manuel Bernhardt]

Hi there,

today I tried to setup Fiddler for my development VM and allow for that remote access to Fiddler. For make it a bit more secury I enable proxy authentication. Sadly, after software restart the option is not checked (or better :Saved during exit).

Is there any way make the option set permanent?

Regards

[Eric Lawrence]

Are you talking about the Rules > Require Proxy Authentication checkbox? I assume you understand that its default user:password of 1:1 (which is shown inside the password prompt itself) provides no security?

That's backed by the fiddler.ui.ephemeral.rules.requireproxyauth preference, and the text ephemeral in the name of the rule is why it's not saved and restored.

Inside Fiddler's Rules > Customize Rules > Main() function, you could do FiddlerApplication.Prefs.SetBoolPref("fiddler.ui.ephemeral.rules.requireproxyauth", true); ...

[Manuel Bernhardt]

Thanks for response! I already changed username and password for security reasons. Maybe fiddler should contain a hint which is always shown like "You're using default username and password. For this reason, this option will not remain permanently checked. Please change for make this option permanent". And fiddler checks username and password and if it's changed, the option should stay set.

[Eric Lawrence]

"changed username and password" how?

Your actual proposal here is: "Fiddler should offer a proxy authentication setting for security purposes (beyond the old Rules option used for testing)". Such an option would live in Tools > Fiddler Options, and have no relationship to the mechanism used for test purposes.

File such requests at https://fiddler.ideas.aha.io