So, you’re developing an Azure website using a Web role, and now you want to see what that website looks like on a mobile device.

First, follow my instructions here to set up port forwarding for your website.

Once you’ve done that, assuming your mobile device is on the same network as your PC running the Azure web role, you should just be able to open the URL for the website in your mobile web browser – in my case this https://10.200.34.201:800/

If you need to debug the traffic between your Azure web role and the mobile device, you can do that using Fiddler or Charles proxy. Fiddler instructions here. Charles instructions here. And SSL instructions for Charles here, if your site runs on SSL.

If you need to manipulate the traffic between Azure and the mobile browser, you can use Fiddler’s custom rules to do that – in my case I had to inject a “IsMobile=true” header. Fiddler -> Rules -> Customize Rules. Locate “static function OnBeforeRequest” and add the following line to it. oSession.oRequest[“IsMobile”] = “true”;