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Charles vs Pulsar Editor

A side-by-side look at Charles and Pulsar Editor. 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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Pulsar Editor

Pulsar Editor

Development

Pulsar Editor is a lightweight, cross-platform text editor with a minimal interface. It has syntax highlighting support for many programming languages and includes standard text editing features like find/replace, line numbers, etc. Pulsar is free, open source software.

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