Charles Web Debugging Proxy

October 8th, 2007 by John Reeve

We recently were debugging issues with our document uploader in Intervals and needed to throttle the bandwidth on our desktops so we could test the progress meter over our LAN (Typically, the LAN is too fast and the progress meter never appears).

We settled on using the Charles Web Debugging Proxy, which did a fine job of throttling the bandwidth down enough that we could use the Request Viewer to monitor the request / response headers.

A definite thumbs up for this product, as we were easily able to troubleshoot and debug the document upload in a matter of minutes.

Tags: ajax, documents, intervals

One Response to “Charles Web Debugging Proxy”

Business Opportunities Says:
October 8th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Jan Normanwrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt We recently were debugging issues with our document uploader in Intervals and needed to throttle the bandwidth on our desktops so we could test the progress meter over our LAN (Typically, the

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