My name is Pat Walsh, I'm a freelance software tester, based in the London area. I find that the Contents tab is by far the most helpful, because it splits the request parameters and response apart, making the URL details easier to read. All content is copyright 2020. Charles Proxy is a software designed to debug web application via proxy. I specialise in iOS app testing, Android app testing and website testing. Charles Proxy is ideal for debugging when you can’t use the built in developer tools that modern browsers now offer, and I’ve listed some use cases below. We’ve worked with Pat Walsh on a number of very different projects, from interactive video projects to mobile apps. Charles Proxy really is a neat box of tricks and two of the best are the Rewrite Tool and Breakpoints Rewrite Tool If we were validating a header bidder integration, we’d be looking for that $2.26 value (shown in the ‘price’ parameter) passed to DFP through some key-value, which we could look for in the request parameters to the ad server, like we did in the previous use case: Now you know the basics of how to use Charles Proxy to read ad request and responses, but the use cases are really endless. Completed the Rapid Software Testing Explored online course with Michael Bolton, in 2020. Pat is a real asset to any team – highly competent technically but also easy going and a great guy to work with.

To see all of your focused hosts, and to edit them, go to the Focused Hosts… item in the View menu. For cURL on the command line: curl --proxy localhost:8888. Using the Focus feature, you can separate the hosts that you care about from the ones that you don't. It includes a 30 days trial version. Pat Walsh provided Kingston Valdes with a professional and personable service that was excellent value. There are often a lot of requests and responses from a lot of different hosts cluttering up a Charles session. I can work with you on projects of all sizes, onsite and online. We needed someone with that magic “6th sense” of where the bugs are lurking; the ones which developers tend to miss. If you are developing an application using libcurl you can configure it to use Charles as its proxy server: New users should expect some bumps on the way – be patient. As iOS mobile developer, you can use it as HTTP Proxy with your iOS device in a man in the middle approach to … Charles is developed by XK72. This might be annoying to look at chronologically, but simple when organized by domain. Add a test set of rewrite(s) using the Add button on the left and give the test set of rules a name, 4. On the right hand side, you can then start setting up the locations (URLs) where you want your rewrite rules to happen, 5. He goes beyond what you’d expect of a QA tester, commenting more broadly on user experience and even design. However, if you wanted to understand if you were making all your header bidder requests before your ad request, you’d need that chronological view. In my own view, Charles Proxy is more difficult to learn than developer tools, and can be a little frustrating in the setup work that’s often required.