How does Fiddler get the "Process" information

[Kenn]

Hello!

 

I am trying write a bit of code which opens two different urls in two chrome tabs in parallel.

I want to write some code which will save two saz files - one saz file showing the traffic of each tab.

The events are interlaced, so I am attempting to use the "ProcessId" represented in the "process" column in Fiddler.

 

Although each tab is a different process inside of Task Manager, they both appear as the same process within Fiddler.

 

I'm interested to know - how does fiddler even get the process which create the request? Are you doing a lookup based on process name?

 

Much obliged!

Kenn

[EricLaw]

Chrome uses multiple processes; a single "manager" process handles all network requests, while each tab is backed by one or more "content" processes used for rendering the HTML, running the script, and executing any plugins.

 

Fiddler is showing you the process that issued the network request, which (in Chrome) is the central network process.

 

Internet Explorer, in contrast, also has a multi-process architecture, but in IE, each content process handles its own networking.