How to use Charles

Many users are interested in the Charles program and are trying to understand its work. But before you install and figure out how to use Charles, you need to find out in more detail what kind of program it is and why you need it. All these questions are of interest to users, and will be discussed in this article.

Charles is a software proxy that allows you to monitor all Internet traffic. After making a connection, the browser on the computer receives all the data from the sites. This and various kinds of requests, responses, HTTP headers, which include cache information and cookies. All proxy data displays as folders that have server names. Each of them contains data that displays events associated with a specific server. All this in the future the user will be able to edit, you just have to figure out how to work with Charles.

The very first step is downloading and installing the required browser (in this case - Firefox), and then the most proxy Charles. You can install both paid and free version, they work the same way. After the process of installing and running the program in Firefox, the "Tools" - "Charels" - "Enable Charels" tab will start, in which the processes of data transfer to Internet servers from a particular computer will begin.

Before using Charles, you need to install it. The process is not difficult and usually does not cause additional difficulties. After downloading the proxy to the computer, you need to run the exe file. Setup. During the installation process, you do not need to change anything; you just need to click the "Next" button everywhere. Then, after the end, it is recommended to put Crack. This is necessary so that the program itself in the future does not always remind you that registration is required. The required file with the "crack" is copied with the replacement in the folder "Charles / lib". In addition, for the program to work correctly, you need to install the Java application on your computer.

Above mentioned that this proxy works mainly with the browser Mozilla Firefox. That there were no difficulties in the question of how to use Charles, it is desirable for him in advance to install an additional plug-in. It will allow you to keep under control all the existing issues. Any additional settings are not required, after the installation process the program is ready to work. Will only run it.

To start the full Charles operation, the "Start / Stop Recording" button is activated, which is located on the toolbar and looks like a point inside the white circle. Its launch starts or stops the work to control traffic. Yes, and it would be quite good, before using Charles, to study this menu. At the first stage of the work, it is possible that the proxy will not show the existing connection with the running Internet server or it will not display the folders with the gates. No problem, the reason, most likely, is that the program is added to the ignored lists and the computer just does not pay attention to it. You can check this by going to the "Recording Settings" proxy menu and opening the Ignore Hosts column. If the server you need is located in a given location, you simply delete it with the "Remove" button. The option of reinstalling the program in this case does not help.

To edit a specific query, for example, gateway.php, you need to use the right mouse button: click on the desired line, select the "Edit" function, make corrections, save, and send to the server using "Execute". To carry out the action of interception of the request from the server, it is necessary to tear out the folder of the requested one, open it and select the command "Breakpoints" in the appeared menu. Then, the toolbar launches "Enable / Disable Breakpoints" (looks like a red hexagon). After such actions, incoming requests are displayed with a red arrow pointing down, outgoing, on the contrary, indicated by an arrow pointing up.

Well, these are the main points responsible for how to use Charles. If the computer does not need the Mozilla browser required for the program, there is nothing terrible. Charles works in the Opera and Google Chrome. You just need to configure and edit this software. In the Opera this can be done through the "Tools" folder. You must perform the following steps sequentially: "General settings" - "Advanced" - "Network" - "Proxy servers", set the checkboxes for HTTP and HTTPS, IP: 127.0.0.1 and port: 8888. Then save all this. Almost the same thing should be done in Chrome: "Options" - "Change proxy settings" - "Connections" - "Use proxy server".