diff --git a/packages/dev-middleware/src/__tests__/InspectorProxyCdpRewritingHacks-test.js b/packages/dev-middleware/src/__tests__/InspectorProxyCdpRewritingHacks-test.js
index bf7656843a2..d0cff55f83e 100644
--- a/packages/dev-middleware/src/__tests__/InspectorProxyCdpRewritingHacks-test.js
+++ b/packages/dev-middleware/src/__tests__/InspectorProxyCdpRewritingHacks-test.js
@@ -295,6 +295,42 @@ describe.each(['HTTP', 'HTTPS'])(
             debugger_.close();
           }
         });
+
+        describe('Network.loadNetworkResource', () => {
+          test('should respond with an error without forwarding to the client', async () => {
+            const {device, debugger_} = await createAndConnectTarget(
+              serverRef,
+              autoCleanup.signal,
+              {
+                app: 'bar-app',
+                id: 'page1',
+                title: 'bar-title',
+                vm: 'bar-vm',
+              },
+            );
+            try {
+              const response = await debugger_.sendAndGetResponse({
+                id: 1,
+                method: 'Network.loadNetworkResource',
+                params: {
+                  url: 'http://example.com',
+                },
+              });
+              expect(response.result).toEqual(
+                expect.objectContaining({
+                  error: {
+                    code: -32601,
+                    message:
+                      '[inspector-proxy]: Page lacks nativeSourceCodeFetching capability.',
+                  },
+                }),
+              );
+            } finally {
+              device.close();
+              debugger_.close();
+            }
+          });
+        });
       },
     );
 
@@ -581,6 +617,33 @@ describe.each(['HTTP', 'HTTPS'])(
           }
         });
       });
+
+      describe('Network.loadNetworkResource', () => {
+        test('should forward event directly to client (does not rewrite url host)', async () => {
+          const {device, debugger_} = await createAndConnectTarget(
+            serverRef,
+            autoCleanup.signal,
+            pageDescription,
+          );
+          try {
+            const message = {
+              id: 1,
+              method: 'Network.loadNetworkResource',
+              params: {
+                url: `${protocol.toLowerCase()}://10.0.2.2:${serverRef.port}`,
+              },
+            };
+            await sendFromDebuggerToTarget(debugger_, device, 'page1', message);
+            expect(device.wrappedEventParsed).toBeCalledWith({
+              pageId: 'page1',
+              wrappedEvent: message,
+            });
+          } finally {
+            device.close();
+            debugger_.close();
+          }
+        });
+      });
     });
   },
 );
diff --git a/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/Device.js b/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/Device.js
index 88b82f5995f..54fe5397fce 100644
--- a/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/Device.js
+++ b/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/Device.js
@@ -799,6 +799,31 @@ export default class Device {
         // Sends response to debugger via side-effect
         this.#processDebuggerGetScriptSource(req, socket);
         return null;
+      case 'Network.loadNetworkResource':
+        // If we're rewriting URLs (to frontend-relative), we don't want to
+        // pass these URLs to the device, since it may try to fetch, return a
+        // CDP *result* (not error) with a network failure, and CDT
+        // will *not* then fall back to fetching locally.
+        //
+        // Instead, take the absence of a nativeSourceCodeFetching
+        // capability as a signal to never pass a loadNetworkResource request
+        // to the device. By returning a CDP error, the frontend should fetch.
+        const result = {
+          error: {
+            code: -32601, // Method not found
+            message:
+              '[inspector-proxy]: Page lacks nativeSourceCodeFetching capability.',
+          },
+        };
+        const response = {id: req.id, result};
+        socket.send(JSON.stringify(response));
+        const pageId = this.#debuggerConnection?.pageId ?? null;
+        this.#deviceEventReporter?.logResponse(response, 'proxy', {
+          pageId,
+          frontendUserAgent: this.#debuggerConnection?.userAgent ?? null,
+          prefersFuseboxFrontend: this.#isPageFuseboxFrontend(pageId),
+        });
+        return null;
       default:
         return req;
     }
diff --git a/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/cdp-types/messages.js b/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/cdp-types/messages.js
index b019728d15d..67ffef60e6c 100644
--- a/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/cdp-types/messages.js
+++ b/packages/dev-middleware/src/inspector-proxy/cdp-types/messages.js
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ export type CDPClientMessage =
   | CDPRequest<'Debugger.getScriptSource'>
   | CDPRequest<'Debugger.scriptParsed'>
   | CDPRequest<'Debugger.setBreakpointByUrl'>
+  | CDPRequest<'Network.loadNetworkResource'>
   | CDPRequest<>;
 
 export type CDPServerMessage =