Charles vs libev
A side-by-side look at Charles and libev. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
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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libev
Development
libev is a high-performance event loop/event model library written in C. It allows asynchronous events and callbacks to be registered and handled efficiently in applications. libev supports various event notification interfaces like timers, signals, sockets, pipes, and more.
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