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Charles vs Ostinato

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

Ostinato

Network & Admin

Ostinato is an open-source, cross-platform network packet generator and traffic analyzer. It can generate and analyze various types of network traffic for testing and monitoring purposes.

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