TextView tab in Inspectors is empty

[Gavin Johnson]

When using Fiddler the TextView tab is completely blank. The headers tab seems to always be populated with expected data but the body is empty. This issue is present on Chrome, Firefox and IE (the only ones I have tried). This seems to only happen for requests however. The sample app included with FiddlerCore throws the same error over and over: 

>** LogString: [Fiddler] No HTTP request was received from (chrome:####) new client socket, port #####.

When calling the method GetRequestBodyAsString() the string is always empty. GetResponseBodyAsString() works just fine however, returning the expected response. Any insight as to what the issue might be? Or do I just know nothing about HTTP traffic and requests are not supposed to have a body?

[EricLaw]

Most HTTP requests do not contain a body; in particular, most requests are GET and do not carry a body (only headers). When you submit a web form, it will often (but not always) send the form's data in the body of a request sent using the POST method. In contrast, most (but not all) responses contain both headers and a body.

You can use the RAW tab to see the raw headers and body together in one view.

-Eric