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Overview
This page describes quick usage instructions for Charles.
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Upon install or first run, Charles should prompt you to enter your admin username/password to allow it to edit your network proxy settings.
Windows
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TBD
/Linux
Here be dragons.
Usage
NOTE: By default, Charles proxies on localhost
port 8888
Monitoring Web Browser Traffic
Most applications will automatically pick up your network proxy settings and use the proxy you've set up.
This means that any requests made from common applications such as Postman or Google Chrome or Outlook (on OSX, at least) should automatically show up in Charles.
Monitoring Command Line Traffic
Some (not all) command-line utilities will allow you to specify a proxy to use for any necessary network connections.
For example, curl
allows you to specify the -x localhost:8888
parameter to tell it to direct its traffic through a proxy.
Monitoring JVM Language Traffic
If you want to examine requests made from a JVM language, you can specify a set of JVM arguments that will direct this traffic through Charles, and allow you to examine.
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