Charles vs WinDbg
A side-by-side look at Charles and WinDbg. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
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
WinDbg
Development
WinDbg is a powerful Windows debugging tool used mainly for analyzing crashes and errors in Windows applications and drivers. It provides detailed assembly-level debugging and can be used to inspect live programs or crash dumps.
debuggerwindowscrash-analysisassembly-debugging
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