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Debugging

Azure, Debugging, Web, WebApi

Debugging a managed identity connection to Azure SQL in Azure App Service using containers

So you’ve been eager to deploy your containerized web application that you’ve been working on for a while, to Azure App Service. You follow the best security practices which means you’ve setup your connection to your Azure SQL database using a managed identity. Upon loading your application, you get a dreadful exception that you can’t connect to the database. You then wonder, is this a database permission problem or some another problem, such as the application cannot connect to the database using its managed identity. This problem is even tougher to diagnose in applications such as Custom Off the Shelf (COTS) that you don’t have the source code. Rest assured, this happen to the best of us (yes, even me!)….

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Debugging, Tools

Changing requests status codes to test your front-end behaviors

A developer I work with came across an interesting problem where he needed to test the error handling on the front-end side of a SPA without adding extra “hacks” in the APIs that were consumed by the front-end. I helped him with this task, without adding “hacks”, by using Fiddler. Setup Download yourself a copy of Fiddler. Once installed, you need to configure Fiddler to intercept and decrypt HTTPS requests (as I hope your APIs are chatting on HTTPS). To do so, go in Tools -> Options and under the HTTPS tab, check Capture HTTPS CONNECTs and Decrypt HTTPS traffic and select …from browsers only. Accept all the dialogs that come after checking all of those. You will see that…

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