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Charles vs GitCDN

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

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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GitCDN

GitCDN

Development

GitCDN is a free open source CDN designed specifically to host Git repositories and serve Git objects over HTTP/HTTPS. It allows for faster cloning and fetching of Git repositories by caching objects on a globally distributed network of servers.

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