Charles v3.3 public beta 2
The second public beta of Charles has just been released. This update adds:
- “Window always on top” setting and window remembers maximised state
- Summary table column sorting improved to sort numeric columns
- Map Remote can now map http requests to https servers
- Location matching now supports adding $ after the final / for an exact directory match rather than an implicit wildcard
It also includes fixes and improvements to JSON and JSON P and validation. In particular you can now repeat a request within the validation results and have it repeat the original request and then validate the result – really handy for iterative testing and fixing!
This release is heading for final this week I hope so please send your feedback.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Thank you for much! Charles rocks!
February 12th, 2009 at 4:46 am
by the way, is it possible to make Charles capture HTTP requests from Opera browser?
February 12th, 2009 at 7:37 am
It is possible but you’ll need to configure Opera manually to use Charles as its HTTP and SSL proxy. The address is 127.0.0.1 port 8888.
February 12th, 2009 at 8:45 am
I couldn’t find a more appropriate area for this but I was hoping to make a feature request:
Host Filters – Mainly this would be nice for just Recording, when I am going through my RIA applications to verify tracking events I usually only want to see request for that particular host. Figured others might run into this. With this it would be nice to be able to add wildcards to Host Ignores.
Thanks for all the hard work!
February 13th, 2009 at 7:19 am
@Darren Thanks for your comment. I am working on a way to only show certain hosts; I’m planning to offer it in two ways, one where it is just a visual filter and one where others actually aren’t recorded. Sometimes you want to focus on a particular host(s) but not necessarily miss other traffic if you want to go back to it, I think!
You can currently put wildcards into the Ignore Hosts list in the Recording Settings if that helps!
February 15th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Karl, thanks for this wonderful application.
We’re still having some issues you might want to dive into;
We’re using a certificate that has (besides a host name) multiple dns names. This works perfectly when having a SSL enabled Apache httpd host with multiple aliases.
Afaik Charles just spoofs the hostname; and not the dns names in the certificate; thus breaking our setup when testing.
Do you think there’s a way you could also slap these dns names into the certificate?
February 15th, 2009 at 7:11 am
@walinsky Hi, no problem I’ll look into that. Can you please send me an example site I can test with? Use the contact form on the website then I should be able to sort it. Also, have you tried the beta on it in case I’ve already done it – there have been some certificate changes I think.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:53 am
Karl,
seems like I just beat you to the minute;
the new release seems to fill in the gaps.
Good work!