Capture Asp.net webservice traffic request when using with sitecore

I was doing bit of research playing around postman interceptor and fiddler but couldn't find the solution to view the calls made by sitecore.net to asp.net webservice that is been called as part of middle tier.

Even Redgate Ant profiler even could not able to capture such outgoing requests to other asp.net webservice. The idea was to assess the response time elapsed to get data from external webservice to our sitecore solution. We want to make sure what we developed in sitecore will be as optimum in terms of our design approach. We ensured most of the component is cached and rendered appropriately.

• Doing this you can see performance profiling stats of outgoing request to external api , web service, wcf service etc.
• You can see them available in Redgate Ants performance profiler and VS2015 n tier profiling.
• Fiddler to give you all in and out of http requests.

 

Finally i was surfing through knowledge base of sitecore and happen to find this work around.

Note: The profiler will only capture requests made by System.Net.HttpWebRequest

Courtesy Sitecore
https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/017181

Solution

To configure the Fiddler tool to capture web service calls from an ASP.NET web site, you need to perform the following actions on your solution:

1. In the Global.asax file, implement the following Application_Start method:

       public void Application_Start()
       {
           ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(delegate { return true; });
       }
   

2. In the Global.asax file, add the following import statements:

   <%@ Import Namespace="System.Net" %>
   <%@ Import Namespace="System.Net.Security" %>

3. In the web.config file, configure the following XML under the section:

   <system .net>
     <defaultproxy enabled="true" usedefaultcredentials="true">
       <proxy autodetect="false" bypassonlocal="false" proxyaddress="http://127.0.0.1:8888" usesystemdefault="false">
     </proxy>

</configuration>

Enable Fiddler to capture the HTTPS traffic.

After the traffic is captured by Fiddler, it can be saved for further sharing and analysis.