Charles: Web Debugging Proxy for Web and Mobile Apps

Course details

What is Charles?

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).

Why Charles for Developers/Testers?

• It saves you a lot of time to help you analyze, debug and fix the issue
• Record and Monitor all network traffic sent and received by your apps 
• Test your product(web apps,mobile apps) in different network bandwidths by throttling
• Test your local version of code before having to commit to remote server or repository
• Change the Request/Response body and headers of any network call 
• Generate basic load test on your server to analyze its behavior
• (and many more)....

In this course, we will be covering the below topics listed-

• Introduction, What is Charles?
• Installation of Charles
• Configuring Charles Proxy for Desktop Browsers- Safari, Chrome, Firefox
• Configuring Charles Proxy with Mobile Devices iOS and Android- Emulator/Simulator and Real Devices
• Capturing HTTPS traffic by installing SSL Root Certificate
• Exploring Key Features of Charles-
  • Recording
  • Breakpoints
  • Network Throttling
  • DNS Spoofing
  • Load Testing
  • Charles Web Interface
  • Map Local
  • Caching
  • (and more)....

Start using this in tool at work, and we promise that this will be a great companion at work saving you a lot of time and improving your productivity. All the very best.