--discovery doesn't seem to work

[waldekmastykarz]

Discussed in #1399

^{Originally posted by crowleysoftware September 30, 2025}
On the Discover URLs to watch page it says we can do devproxy --discover to report URLs our apps are using. But when I use it, nothing happens. There is nothing shown on the console and when I stop devproxy there is no file written. I've tried --watch-process-names and --watch-pids and I've also tried omitting any watched process so that it picks up anything on the system.
I am on v1.2.0.
This still works though:

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/dev-proxy/main/schemas/v1.2.0/rc.schema.json",
    "plugins": [
      {
        "name": "UrlDiscoveryPlugin",
        "enabled": true,
        "pluginPath": "~appFolder/plugins/DevProxy.Plugins.dll"
      },
      {
        "name": "PlainTextReporter",
        "enabled": true,
        "pluginPath": "~appFolder/plugins/DevProxy.Plugins.dll"
      }
    ],
    "urlsToWatch": [
      "https://*/*"
    ],
    "record": true
  }

Is it because the schema is wrong in the urls-to-watch.json file located here ? ...\AppData\Local\Programs\Dev Proxy\config\urls-to-watch.json

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/dev-proxy/main/schemas/v0.25.0/rc.schema.json",
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "UrlDiscoveryPlugin",
      "enabled": true,
      "pluginPath": "~appFolder/plugins/dev-proxy-plugins.dll"
    },
    {
      "name": "PlainTextReporter",
      "enabled": true,
      "pluginPath": "~appFolder/plugins/dev-proxy-plugins.dll"
    }
  ],
  "urlsToWatch": [
    "https://*/*"
  ],
  "record": true
}
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