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Charles vs Playfic

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

Playfic

Games

Playfic is an open source platform for creating and playing interactive fiction games. It allows authors to write games using a simple scripting language and publish them on the Playfic site for others to play in their browser.

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