I want to make everyone aware of another great tool for your coding toolbox,Charles Web Debugging Proxy. Charles Proxy is somewhat similar to Firebug which was mentioned in a previous post by Colin. As stated on the Charles Proxy website http://www.charlesproxy.com/, "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)."
Some Feature of Charles Proxy:
Some Feature of Charles Proxy:
Browser Agnostic
For all you die hard browser fanatics out there (insert Matt Mager's name here) Charles Proxy works out of the box with IE, Firefox (Need to download an extension), and Opera
Operating System Agnostic
Runs on Windows, MAC OS, and LINUX
SSL Proxying - View SSL requests and responses in plain text
bandwidth Throttling - Simulates slower internet connections including latency
This is a great feature when you want to test out your web development with the bandwidth simulation of one of your target users
AJAX Debugging - Supports XML and JSON natively so you can View XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or text. This feature would have come in handy when I was having issues retrieving JSON data for the second iteration of my personal project
Breakpoints to intercept and edit requests or responses -
You are able to insert a break point and edit requests to test different inputs
Validate recorded HTML, CSS, and RSS/atom responses using the W3C validator
Charles Proxy comes with a 30 day trial where at the end of the trial you will have to purchase for $50.00. From a business standpoint the $400 site license or $700 multi-site license seem the best way to go.
Just to reiterate Charles Proxy supports AJAX Debugging so can youcan so you can View XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or text.
Just to reiterate Charles Proxy supports AJAX Debugging so can youcan so you can View XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or text.
Enjoy!!!
This is the first time I've heard about this. It is nice to see that it works will multiple browsers and operating systems. I will definitely be checking this out.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like it could be a great tool to help with coding. You mentioned toward the bottom of your post that there are different costs to suite different peoples needs, which is nice, but it seems like this would be most useful to a business rather than in individual. It just seems like there are other resources that an individual could use without having to spend the money. Especially if they are only doing it for projects in or out of school.
ReplyDeleteMichelle,
ReplyDeleteYou are correct, there is other software out there for little to no cost. I guess the focus of my blog posts are to show people from a business stand point what is out there when you have to make the decisions for your IT department.