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Charles vs Openswan

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

Openswan

Security & Privacy

Openswan is an open-source implementation of IPsec VPN software for Linux. It implements tunneling, authentication, and encryption standards to build secure site-to-site and remote access VPNs.

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