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Charles v2.5 is coming

It’s been a few months since Charles 2.4.2 was released, and I’m now happy to report that I’m close to releasing version 2.5. This release will include a number of major and minor improvements. Here is a taster:

Improved viewing of cookies, images, multi-part form posts, AMF / Flash Remoting (this is a really neat improvement if you use AMF) and FLV files. Select multiple nodes in the tree to view summary statistics of those requests, or to save them all to disc. Keyboard shortcuts for switching between views. Regex filtering and row limiting on the sequence view. Automatic flushing of old recorded information to stop the session filling up. Host and path matching for recording ignore and tool configuration now with full wildcard support; so you can turn on No Caching on *.swf for example.

That’s only the interesting bits from a big list. I’m currently testing the changes and hope to have it release quality in a week or so.

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6 Responses to “Charles v2.5 is coming”

  1. erixtekila Says:
    August 22nd, 2006 at 2:04 am

    Can’t wait to look at the flv support new feature.
    Will it support FLV 1.1 metadat also, dince they are AMF encoded ?
    Great stuff.

  2. Karl Says:
    August 23rd, 2006 at 11:59 am

    It does indeed. It shows pretty simple stuff for FLV: Version, Audio/Video or both, Size, Metadata tags, Video codec and a few other things such as estimated duration (if the entire FLV isn’t recorded in Charles).

  3. erixtekila Says:
    August 28th, 2006 at 1:41 am

    Sorry, what do you mean by “recorded” ? A new proxy feature ?
    Will Charles enable recording of live stream for example ?

  4. Karl Says:
    August 28th, 2006 at 8:13 am

    Recorded just in the existing sense in Charles: the requests and response data is recorded. Charles does “record” live streams but only as a series of request and response packets, so not in a way that you can directly convert them into media files.

  5. erixtekila Says:
    August 28th, 2006 at 10:56 pm

    Of course :)

  6. Marcelo Serpa Says:
    September 1st, 2006 at 8:54 am

    Hello Karl,

    Nice to see you have a blog for Charles. Keeping this close relationship with customers is fundamental. As erix stated, I also can’t wait to see Charles 2.5, so, keep up the good work ;)

    Marcelo.

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