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Charles vs MegaDownloader

A side-by-side look at Charles and MegaDownloader. 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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MegaDownloader

MegaDownloader

File Sharing

MegaDownloader is a free and open-source download manager and accelerator designed specifically for downloading files from Mega and Mega.nz hosted cloud storage sites. It features multi-threaded downloading to speed up downloads, support for HTTP, HTTPS and MEGA link parsing, pausing and resuming of downloads, and a simple user interface.

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