Fiddler with iphone and ipad - local vhosts not working

Question

I'm trying to run some local testing on iDevices but I must be missing something in the setup. I did that before when it all worked, so maybe someone can helpout:

I'm using Fiddler on a windows machine, have all devices set up via proxies and yes it also captures the traffic of the iphone and ipad. I've got a few localhost vhosts set up, so running

http://mydomain.local

this works swimmingly on the windows phone via proxy to fiddler. but the iphone and ipad just says the server stopped responding. The firewall is completely turned off and I can see all other traffic from the iDevices, so what could be the issue? Why does the iphone not read the hosts file but the windows phone does?

Answer 1

Almost a year late, but I had the same problem and can confirm that iOS does reserve ".local" to identify Bonjour-accessible devices

If possible just change your domain extension to something else like ".lan" and your requests will go through the Fiddler proxy as expected.