Migrating from Fiddler

Fiddler is two different products and you leave them for different reasons.

First: Classic or Everywhere

Fiddler Classic — Windows only, and since 3 August 2026 licensed for personal, non-commercial use only: for commercial use Telerik points you at Everywhere. It is not in active development, with no commitment to releases, patches or support. It has FiddlerScript, AutoResponder, Composer, its own .saz archive, and HTTP/1.x.

Fiddler Everywhere — Windows, macOS and Linux, by subscription, with HTTP/2. There is no FiddlerScript in it: a Rules tab replaces AutoResponder.

If you are on Classic and the work is commercial, you have to move anyway and the only question is where. If you are on Everywhere, read the table below more carefully — Everywhere does more.

What maps to what

Fiddler Solpuga
AutoResponder (Classic) / Rules (Everywhere) Map Local
Breakpoints (bpu, bpafter) Breakpoints
Inspectors Request and response inspector
Statistics Per-phase timing and body sizes
Decryption skip rules Exclusion list
Export Sessions → HTTPArchive v1.2 HAR 1.2 export
Import Snapshot → .har HAR import, read-only
Filters Search and filters
WebSocket Partly: messages recorded, none sent
FiddlerScript (Classic) —
Composer —
Replay —
Reverse proxy —
HTTP/2 (Everywhere) —
Map Remote —
Slow-network emulation —
.saz —

Carrying sessions over as HAR

.saz is readable only by Fiddler, so HAR is the bridge.

In Fiddler Classic. File → Export Sessions → All Sessions (or Selected Sessions) → format HTTPArchive v1.2.

Take v1.2, not v1.1: v1.1 cannot store non-textual response bodies. And know about Classic's second limit: a .har is not compressed, so by default it stores non-textual content only up to 32 kB. Larger images and files will not be in the export — that is the exporter's setting, not Solpuga's.

In Fiddler Everywhere. Export sessions as HAR from the File menu.

In Solpuga. Tools → import HAR (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + I), or open the file from your file manager. A separate read-only window; a live capture keeps running. Files over 500 MB are refused.

What comes across

Headers, bodies, statuses, timings. The imported window uses the same inspector as a live capture: JSON as a tree, images with dimensions, binary as hex; the raw message and the bodies can be written to files.

What is lost

  • AutoResponder and Rules. HAR describes traffic, not settings. They get recreated; from a captured request the rule is filled in with the response that actually arrived.
  • FiddlerScript. Not in HAR, and nowhere to carry it to — see below.
  • Non-textual bodies over 32 kB — if the export came out of Classic with default settings.
  • WebSocket. HAR has nowhere to put it.
  • Double decompression. Bodies in Solpuga's HAR are decompressed while the response headers are kept as they arrived; an importer that trusts Content-Encoding will try again.

What you get instead

Coming from Classic: builds for macOS and Linux, not Windows only, and no restriction on commercial use.

An interface in English and Russian, and a free tier with no time limit.

Download for free

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