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Charles vs HelpSmith

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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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HelpSmith

HelpSmith

Office & Productivity

HelpSmith is a help authoring and documentation tool that allows teams to create context-sensitive help content, knowledge bases, and technical documentation. It has features like content reuse, conditional text, version control, and more.

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