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BadBlue vs Charles

A side-by-side look at BadBlue and Charles. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

BadBlue

BadBlue

Network & Admin

BadBlue is a free web server for Windows that allows hosting multiple websites and supports PHP and CGI scripts. It is designed to be lightweight, easy to use, and configurable.

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Charles

Charles

Development

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).

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