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Charles vs Preon

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

Preon

Development

Preon is an object serializer that generates compact binary data formats. It aims to be an alternative to protocols like JSON and XML that focus on text-based serialization.

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