Charles Insights

What is Charles?

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). It's commonly used for debugging web applications, mobile apps, and APIs by intercepting and inspecting network traffic.

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What other technologies are related to Charles?

Charles Competitor Technologies

Fiddler

Fiddler is a web debugging proxy tool, similar to Charles, used for capturing and inspecting HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

mentioned alongside Charles in 14% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

HTTPWatch

HTTPWatch is a web debugging tool that captures HTTP and HTTPS traffic, similar to Charles.

mentioned alongside Charles in 37% (123) of relevant job posts

Proxyman

Proxyman is a native macOS web debugging proxy, serving the same function as Charles.

mentioned alongside Charles in 23% (106) of relevant job posts

Chrome Dev Tools

Chrome DevTools include network inspection capabilities that overlap with Charles' functionality.

mentioned alongside Charles in 7% (60) of relevant job posts

Firebug

Firebug was a Firefox extension for web development that included network inspection, similar to Charles. It is now deprecated and features are built into Firefox DevTools.

mentioned alongside Charles in 3% (129) of relevant job posts

Wireshark

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer, providing similar network traffic capture and analysis capabilities as Charles, though more focused on lower-level protocols.

mentioned alongside Charles in 1% (270) of relevant job posts