Comments on: Charles 3.2 released

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:10:35 +0000

@Hugh Please send me an email via the contact form on the Charles website if you’re still having this problem. The problem with localhost is that the OS or browser is hardwired to not use a proxy for localhost, so the workaround is to use “localhost.” instead. In your situation it sounds as if the Java app has decided to not use its proxy settings - can you confirm that the proxy settings are still set correctly in the java app?

By: Hugh Stary

Hugh Stary — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:11:15 +0000

Hi,

I’ve been using Charles for a week or so and it has done a great job helping to debug my WCF service using SSL. Now I’m a bit confused though. Im running two test clients against the service, one in .Net 3.5 and one in Java. Both worked when I was running on the Asp.Net development server but since I’ve moved to a real website (or at least a virtual root on my dev machine), Charles has stopped recording requests and responses for the Java app.

Both apps are configured the same, to talk to the same service endpoints with the same credentials. Are there any known issues with locally hosted sites ? I saw a localhost issue on the Troubleshooting page, but my site is using a non-loopback IP.

Any comments would be welcome, but thanks for a great tool anyway !

By: OryS

OryS — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:37:56 +0000

Hey,

I’ve stumbled on two problems -

1) In some cases, when switching between Text and AMF view, I get an exception - Failed to parse data. (java.io.EOFException)

2) It seems impossible to add new AMF entries when editing an AMF request. I can tamper with existing values, but I cannot add my own key/value pairs.

-OS

By: Chris Phillips

Chris Phillips — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:36:44 +0000

I own a license for Charles. I’ve been using it for 4-5 years now. It is great. However, since you moved the Charles download to charlesproxy.com I cannot get to the download updates. My corporate filtering rules block it because it is listed as an anonymous proxy. Could you mirror it back to xk72.com?

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:57:14 +0000

In case anyone is interested, we are slowely narrowing down our issue. We have created a cold fusion page which essentially loads a successful amf response trapped by Charles and returns it to a request. If it is a “post” request to this CF page, the same end of file error occurs and data is trunctated. If it is “get” request, it works. Again this is against a load balanced, ssl page v.s. just http or https (sans load balancer). We are try to get the data centers network team to trouble shoot this issue.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:35:11 +0000

Great software! We just picked up a liceanse for debugging AMF calls.

We ran into something similar as Pablo except our message indicates it didn’t get back all the data: [AMF data is incomplete (1.43 KB of 24.97 KB). Please check the recording limits in the Recording Settings.] Application gets a EOF error after 2 minutes which is when this message is finalized in Charles. The view of the HEX response shows the data being cut off.

We are finding this issue with any AMF call over our production SSL environment with objects larger than 3K or so being returned. Under a certain threshold 2.5K , we get the data back deserialized in Charles just fine and the data into our flex app.

We don’t believe it to be an issue with Charles, but we are interested if anyone has seen SSL data cut off like this and have any ideas why.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:57:44 +0000

@Pablo Thanks for your comment. Can you save a session from Charles containing just the AMF request in question and email it to me karl at xk72 etc?

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:50:40 +0000

Great work on this amazing app!

I’m having a slight issue when sending two AMF requests from Flex, where results can’t be parsed in AMF format, showing the following error:

[AMF data is incomplete (846 bytes of 846 bytes). Please check the recording limits in the Recording Settings.]

When watching the AMF Detail tab, error is:

Failed to parse data. (java.io.EOFException).

Any help? Thanks!

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:28:32 +0000

@Charlie Absolutely! I have had a request for exactly that this week and it’s added, you can try it out from http://xk72.com/charles/beta.php and I should be releasing it with some other quick fixes this weekend!

By: Charlie Chen

Charlie Chen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:00:27 +0000

Breakpoint is definitely a good feature, but it would be perfect if you could also filter on HTTP request types (i.e. only break during POSTS and not GETS etc.). Any chance of a quick minor update?