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Charles vs SmartOS

A side-by-side look at Charles and SmartOS. 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).

proxyhttphttpsmonitorreverse-proxy
SmartOS

SmartOS

Os & Utilities

SmartOS is an open-source operating system designed for cloud computing environments. It is built on top of the Illumos kernel, a derivative of Solaris, and enhances security, virtualization, storage, and networking features.

virtualizationcloud-computingopen-source

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