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Charles vs Stirling PDF

A side-by-side look at Charles and Stirling PDF. 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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Stirling PDF

Stirling PDF

Office & Productivity

Stirling PDF is a PDF editing and conversion software that allows users to easily manipulate PDF files. It has tools to split, merge, compress, convert, encrypt/decrypt, edit text and images, add/remove pages, insert headers/footers, redact content, and more.

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