On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Matthias Dietrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Nicholas, > > Am 24.06.2010 um 18:54 schrieb Nicholas Wehr: > >> I used charles proxy as well until I discovered how awesome the mozilla >> addon firebug is. unbeatable json (xhdr) and network activity analyzer. >> handles ssl too check it out! >> >> jim, is there a charles feature that stands out above firebug? I only used >> for one project until I re-discovered firebug... > > I haven't bought Charles yet but used it for a longer time. A big plus is > that you can display the content depending on its type (eg. JSON and AMF as > collapsable tree, but doesn't has a display mode for every type, I guess). > And it's browser independent so you can test with Safari and other clients > (like native apps!), too. You can record transferred data, stop recording, > open new sessions while the old ones are still present. If FF crashes or you > navigate to a different page, Charles is still there and showing the recorded > and opened sessions. > > Firebug is nice for single request tracking (yes, you can let the requests be > "sticky", but that's not the same and a bit ugly, even sometimes it doesn't > show the content if there's some), CSS, Javascript and HTML, but if you need > to debug more intensive and longer I would prefer something like Charles.
What Matthias said :) The biggest features for me are a full history beyond the current page load ... and also the ability to redirect requests to different servers or even to a local file on your machine. Don't get me wrong, I use Firebug all the time, but Charles definitely has its uses. - Jim _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
