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Charles vs Glsof

A side-by-side look at Charles and Glsof. 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).

proxyhttphttpsmonitorreverse-proxy
Glsof

Glsof

Os & Utilities

Glsof is a free, open source command line tool for listing open files on a system. It shows which files are opened by which processes, similar to lsof, but focused on OpenGL and OpenGL ES connections.

openglopen-filesprocess-monitoring

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