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Charles vs mitmproxy

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

mitmproxy

Security & Privacy

mitmproxy is an open source interactive HTTPS proxy that allows traffic flows to be intercepted, inspected, modified, and replayed. It provides a console interface that allows traffic flows to be inspected and manipulated on the fly.

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