We recently added an official SSL certificate to our trace tool upload server bits.swyx.com. Unfortunately it was too late for v6.12. We released the first Trace Tool version configured with HTTP URLs only. All QA tests had been completed and we couldn’t redo them using HTTPS before the release. But you can easily configure Trace Tool by yourself to use HTTPS.

To configure Trace Tool to use an TLS encrypted connection for the upload open tracetool.exe.config which is located in the SwyxWare program folder, usually c:\program files\SwyxWare. Search for the following settings:

<setting name="UploadUrl" serializeAs="String">

  <value>http://bits.swyx.com/BITSUpload/</value>

</setting>

<setting name="TicketValidationUrl" serializeAs="String">

  <value>http://bits.swyx.com/UploadServices/UploadRequest.asmx</value>

</setting>

Change the URI scheme in both URLs from http to https and save the file. That’s it.