For debugging web apps free Microsoft Fiddler HTTP Debugger rocks Re: [DUG] TIdHTTP

[Morris Johns]

http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
Fiddler was associated with Microsoft, but now there is just a Microsoft
copyright notice at the bottom of the page.
Either way it is a brilliant tool for debugging HTTP requests and
responses. It sets itself up as a proxy - just install, then run IE and
click the fiddler button. Then do your traffic and inspect the HTTP
messages. It understands the upper level HTML and XML protocols as well
so there is some handy stuff to help with that too (didn't always parse
my XML, YMMV).
 
 
Completely different question:
 
Has anyone actually used ECO? I want a nice DB framework with all the
goodies, but I spent 20 minutes looking at ECO today and I saw one MAJOR
suck indicator. You import a database and it creates tables:
 
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ECO_ORMAPPING] (
 [ECO_ORMAPPING] [image] NOT NULL 
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]
GO
 
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ECO_TABLES] (
 [TABLENAME] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT
NULL 
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
 
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ECO_TYPE] (
 [BOLD_TYPE] [smallint] NOT NULL ,
 [CLASSNAME] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT
NULL 
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
 
Hey - I'm feeling disappointed. Any tool that claims to be an OR mapping
tool that stores its data in a BLOB has just got to be kidding. If it
can do OR mapping why don't they use it for their own meta data huh?
Maybe I am jumping to conclusions too quickly - so if anyone can correct
me that would be great.
 
M
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