Charles vs Phantomjs
A side-by-side look at Charles and Phantomjs. 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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Phantomjs
Development
PhantomJS is an open-source headless web browser scriptable with JavaScript. It is used for automating web page interactions, testing, web scraping, and capturing website screenshots. PhantomJS implements web standards and runs the latest web technologies without requiring a visual browser.
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