Question

I have to do some inverse engineering in order to translate a flash web app.

By now, I can assume that all the strings are externalized in JSON URLs that I have identified.

So I wonder if is there a way to change this consumed JSONs for some arbitrary ones defined by me and check the above assumption.

I had the idea to shim the host with the help of the hosts file. But I can do this because I need to change only some resource like this:

http://www.example.com/externalized-strings.json

and not change all the resources under this domain.

I’m using Windos, Chrome and its dev tools for doing the analysis.

Answer 1

Use fiddler or another web debugging proxy. Fiddler will let you create rules to change the URL of a request based on the properties of the request.