Charles Proxy's ability to intercept and inspect HTTP and HTTPS traffic allows users to view and modify requests and responses for detailed analysis and troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

While working with Charles, I faced an internet connectivity issue a couple of times. i need to restart my system sometimes. This makes little choosy for customers to choose Charles and to use. And also, it has a learning curve and can be complex for inexperienced users to navigate, especially when dealing with advanced features and configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Charles, we can able to intercept and inspect the requests triggering when we interact with the application functionalities, and also we can make sure the application is working fine by verifying the requests triggered in Charles. We can also see how system reacts with some customized requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Disha J.

Technical Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/25/2023

"Edge case testing and mocking made easy"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

I mostly use charles to mock the api responses. It helps to complete edge case coding without waiting for backend to deploy changed responses to various kind of use cases and error codes.API debugging is also very simplified by using charles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

Charles is mostly easy to use once set up. Initially, a new person needs a little help to setup but that can be easily achieved by reading out well laid out steps of charles help section. Other than that, i dont find anything which i dislike about charles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/28/2023

"Charles Proxy is an Excellent traffic Analyser tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

Charles Proxy is my go-to tool for identifying malicious traffic.It stores the cache to analyse the the traffic much faster and also used for API testing , SSL &TLS traffic inspection and also domain categorisation . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

OS compatibility and Manual guide for configuration of this tool can be improved as I have been testing this on windows and it's bit tricky when it is setup on Linux or MAC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/9/2023

"My goto tool for HTTP traffic monitoring"

4/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

* Charles can decrypt and inspect SSL/TLS encrypted traffic, even for secure HTTPS connections.

* Charles enables you to modify HTTP requests and responses on the fly. You can edit request and response headers, change parameters, or even change the content of a response.

* Websocket support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

* Charles Proxy is a commercial tool and is not available for free.

* Since Charles Proxy intercepts and analyses network traffic, it introduces an additional layer in the communication flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NEELAM A.

Senior Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/26/2022

"Charles Proxy"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

One of the best tool for server side testing. Can track all the calls fired by the app or web. It becomes very much easier for the tester to check all the calls fired and validate its response at one place. It also structures the call based of the particular source i.e function

Request type can also be sorted and filtered.

Also has the best option to manipulate data in the request or response and verify the server response based on the input using rewrite and breakpoint functions. Can also check network throttling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

The only issue one can face is while setting it up with Mac , although the set up only requires to enable Mac option in charles , but enabling it sometimes get the network down... and takes a few attempts to quit and relaunch Charles again. Functionality wise there is nothing to dislike in the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use charles on daily basis to check new features in our app and web. It helps in testing the new Api calls also in validating whether existing Api calls are affected or not.

It saves a lot of time in debugging a defect using Charles as compared to using any other api tool like postman or Rest api.. where we manually need to check each and every API call that the app or web fires.

But in Charles all calls are shown in one go as the user performs any action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos C.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/16/2023

"Cache Storage Proxy Server"

4/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

Cache storage without needing a dedicated server, install on my Windows OS and store on my storage disk and all query directly over LAN.

Functions of prohibiting access, URL control and connected users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

It is necessary to improve the configuration of extra functions, more intuitive to install on PCs of new users who wish to improve their system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gloriana C.

Junior Quality Assurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/4/2022

"Charles has helped me a lot when testing pages"

5/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

I like that this helped me when testing a page that is outside our web site but it has components that we need to see and check. Ex: a global nav (Menu) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

It is hard to use and difficult to understand. You need to follow instructions made by someone who has more experience using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel C.

Software engineer

Consumer Goods

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/12/2022

"Store web cache"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

Speed in web page loading from a host PC, does not need a dedicated server, install from Windows and store web cache and save Internet bandwidth.

Direct code upload from the local network is efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

Setting up is laborious at first when I have a very wide network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saurabh M.

Content creator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/25/2022

"The best application for enforcing proxies and collecting network logs"

5/5

What do you like best about Charles Proxy?

My favourite feature about Charles proxy is that it is really easy to use and can be used to enforce proxy or throttle any network on any device including mobile phones, tablets or even TVs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Charles Proxy?

Though I've generally used Charles proxy on Mac OS, i find the same difficult and lesser user friendly on a windows computer. If this was improved, I'd totally love the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Charles Proxy:

I'd definitely recommend this application to anyone who needs to work with network logs everyday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Charles Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Charles proxy on a daily basis to collect network logs of devices that are really difficult to collect otherwise. I also use the same to throttle network as it is required while testing apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.