james

Web Debugging Proxy Application

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Web Debugging Proxy Application

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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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pimterry·Sep 25, 2019

HTTP Toolkit is fully open source, primarily AGPL: https://github.com/httptoolkit/. That includes the Pro version too - it's not open core, it's just open source all the way down. There are other tools that exist anyway, but all the big ones (Fiddler & Charles, for Windows & OSX respectively) are very much closed source. The other similar open source competitor I'm familiar with is James Proxy (https://github.com/james-proxy/james) but that's now effectively unmaintained. For comparison, using the internals of Fiddler by itself would cost $2,999 per application per year (https://www.telerik.com/purchase/fiddlercore). The standalone internals of HTTP Toolkit OTOH are on GitHub: https://github.com/httptoolkit/mockttp.

In Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup

dsr12·Aug 21, 2016Submission

James: An Open-Source HTTP Proxy and Monitor Tool (alternative to Charles)

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mitchhentges·Aug 21, 2016

Charles is pretty fantastic, I used it a little bit for debugging an Android app's server communication. The only thing that turned me off is that Charles isn't open source. An open source alternative is James[1], which is pretty cool. Full disclosure though, I am a contributor :) 1: https://github.com/james-proxy/james

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