John Yes it does. It acts as a proxy between whatever application you are using and whatever you are trying to contact. It automagically sets up Firefox and Internet Exploiter. For other apps you may need to manually set the proxy to the local machine and port.
BTW. My name is Steve - Valdhor was my AD&D alias back in my university days ;-} --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John McCormack <j...@...> wrote: > > Thanks valdhor, > > Does Charles manage to capture the local host traffic? > I want to capture the messages between an exe and an Adobe swf file. > > John > > valdhor wrote: > > My favorite (The one I own) is Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com). > > > > The two things that made it my pick is that it is cross platform and > > that it understands AMF (ie. it will show you the returned objects and > > what they contain - invaluable for debugging remote objects) > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "oneworld95" <oneworld95@> wrote: > > > >> John -- WireShark (free download from http://www.wireshark.org/) is my > >> current favorite. It shows all the network traffic and can be filtered > >> based on IP, etc. I've blogged about it here with instructions on > >> using it: > >> > >> > > http://devharbor.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-wireshark-to-sniff-http-packets.html > > > >> - Alex C > >> > >> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "oneworld95" <oneworld95@> wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks, Alex. It's not hanging on the Flex side -- the server response > >>> is never received. Using WireShark (http://www.wireshark.org/), I was > >>> able to see it's not hanging at all, but continually sending messages > >>> to the Java servlet but getting nothing back in reply. > >>> > >>> That's what led me to investigate the Java code more closely. The > >>> BufferedImage object was receiving some JPG images that it couldn't > >>> handle; so it spun away for a while before throwing an exception. For > >>> whatever reason, the exception never made it back to the Flex side. > >>> > >>> All is well now: I took out the BufferedImage object and am passing > >>> the InputStream directly to the Java Advanced Imaging API code, which > >>> resizes the image and writes it to disk. One issue: JPG images with > >>> CMYK color spaces come out with their colors mangled; but that's a > >>> limitation of the server code and has nothing to do with Flex. > >>> > >>> - Alex > >>> > >>> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui <aharui@> wrote: > >>> > >>>> It would be unusual for Flex to hang waiting for the server. Use a > >>>> > >>> network monitor to see what's going on. Is Flex really hung? You > >>> can't hit a button or anything? > >>> > >>>> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] > >>>> > >>> On Behalf Of oneworld95 > >>> > >>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:25 AM > >>>> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > >>>> Subject: [flexcoders] Detect exeptions - help!! > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I've run into a very frustrating situation and need your help: > >>>> > >>>> - Flex uploads a file to the server > >>>> - The server reads it into a Java BufferedImage object. > >>>> - However, Java sometimes takes 40 seconds or longer to reply > >>>> - In some cases it has difficulty reading the file. > >>>> > >>>> In the cases of problems, Flex just hangs. It doesn't reply with > >>>> anything. Is it timing out? Any help appreciated. > >>>> > >>>> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > >
