Charles vs WireMock
A side-by-side look at Charles and WireMock. 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).
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WireMock
Development
WireMock is an open source tool for simulating HTTP-based APIs during development. It enables mocking and stubbing of APIs and servers before they are fully developed to enable faster testing of applications that integrate with them.
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