How-to guides
Short, step-by-step guides to common debugging jobs with VioLens. For everything else, the User Guide covers every feature.
- How to capture and decrypt HTTPS traffic on a Mac
Install VioLens on an Apple silicon Mac, trust its certificate, and see what your browsers and apps send.
- How to capture and decrypt HTTPS traffic on Linux
Install VioLens on Linux, trust its certificate in your browsers, and see what they send.
- How to capture and debug HTTP/2 traffic
Check which HTTP version each request used, and send your own requests over HTTP/2.
- How to see your iPhone or Android phone's HTTPS traffic
Point your phone at VioLens on your computer, install its certificate, and watch what your apps send.
- How to edit and replay HTTP requests
Pause a live request and change it, send a captured one again, or write one from scratch.
- How to mock an API response without changing the server
Answer requests with a file, an error, a redirect or a delay, without touching the server.
- How to inspect WebSocket messages
Watch every message a WebSocket sends and receives, as it happens.
- How to open Fiddler SAZ files, and convert them to HAR
Open a .saz file without Fiddler, on Windows, Mac or Linux, and save it as HAR.
- How to get a capture from a customer (a FiddlerCap alternative)
Send someone VioLens Capture, a one-window app, and they can record the problem for you as a SAZ file.