What is Charles Web Debugging Proxy?
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
Key Features
- SSL Proxying – view SSL requests and responses in plain text
- Bandwidth Throttling to simulate slower Internet connections including latency
- AJAX debugging – view XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or as text
- AMF – view the contents of Flash Remoting / Flex Remoting messages as a tree
- Repeat requests to test back-end changes
- Edit requests to test different inputs
- Breakpoints to intercept and edit requests or responses
- Validate recorded HTML, CSS and RSS/atom responses using the W3C validator
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
FAQs
What is Charles Web Debugging Proxy?
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
How much does Charles Web Debugging Proxy cost?
Charles Web Debugging Proxy starts at $50.
What are Charles Web Debugging Proxy's top competitors?
Progress Telerik Fiddler, Requestly, and Proxyman are common alternatives for Charles Web Debugging Proxy.