Charles is a lifesaver, simply put. It will show you your HTTP traffic going to and from a server in an easy-to-read and analyze manner. It's almost a must-have for Flex Remoting development.
To wit: http://www.charlesproxy.com/ On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > What's Charles? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] on behalf of Scott Talsma > Sent: Thu 7/30/2009 10:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] charles or service capture question > > The way charles works is that is configures the browser's proxy settings, > pointing them to a port that Charles opens for proxying. > For PC and Mac, the proxy settings that the system uses are shared by > IE/Safari. So activating Charles essentially sends AIR requests through > that proxy. > > In Linux, you would probably have to manually configure the proxy settings > at the network card level to point it at the Charles proxy port. Kinda a > pain, b/c when you close Charles, you have to go back and reset your proxy > for web requests to work again. > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:58 PM, John Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well I'm on Linux but I think I may be able to make this work some how. > > > > John > > > > > > > > Cameron Childress wrote: > > > >> You can configure Charles to monitor Windows traffic or Browser > >> Traffic. Check out "Proxy > Windows Proxy" I think. Also check > >> "Proxy > Proxy Settings > Windows". I didn't crank up an AIR app to > >> confirm, but I know I have used Charles before to debug AIR apps. > >> > >> You can also turn on logging to a file, but it's not going to be a > >> nice pretty clicky tree of data. > >> > >> -Cameron > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM, John Mason<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I use Charles with my Flex development, but I can't find a way to > >>> introspect > >>> remoting traffic when working on an AIR project. Are there any ways to > >>> get > >>> either Charles or Service Capture with an AIR app? > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in > > the subject line > > > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > -- > Scott Talsma > CTO, echoEleven > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in > the subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
