Version History
Version 3.2.1
Minor new features and bug fixes
- AMF3 date references parse bug fix
- AMF3 XML support improved
- AMF3 BlazeDS acknowledgement message parsing fix
- AMF editing: Dates & Booleans can now be edited
- Editor now automatically updates Host header value if URL host changes
- Breakpoints: add scheme to breakpoints
- Proxy bug causing slow Flex (in particular) application performance fixed
- Map Remote mapping now more consistent - slight behaviour change, can now map file to file.
- Map Local can now map onto a single file (if you write in the destination path manually).
Version 3.2
Major new features.
- New features
- Breakpoints
- Throttling tool with individual throttle configurations per host and asymmetric throttling
- Help pages added to most Tools, more to follow
- Adobe BlaseDS support
- Auto Save tool - auto saves timestamped session files for long-term monitoring and testing
- New .chls file suffix and OS integration for opening Charles when you open a .chls file
- Open .amf, .amf0 and .amf3 dump files directly in Charles
- Open any file directly in Charles and view it as if it had been downloaded
- Import multiple session files into one
- Single-instance on Windows - only one copy of Charles can be running at a time
- Enhancements
- Tools with lists of locations can now enable/disable individual locations as well as the entire tool
- AMF3 streaming over HTTP support
- Hotkey on Windows to bring Charles to the front - Windows key C
- Header viewer now pretty printed
- SWF viewer shows total size of all fonts
- Raw view added, shows the raw HTTP request or response
- Map Local tool with case-sensitivity switch
- SSL performance enhancements
- Preference option to display seconds or milliseconds and bytes/second or bits/second
- Bug fixes
- Fix SSL with Decrypt SSL off over transparent SOCKS proxy
- AMF3 integer encoding bug
- Fix HTTP 100 continue bug where headers weren't cleared
- and more
Version 3.1.4
Bug fixes and minor new features.
- Rewrite Tool: Fix partial matches in rewrite value.
- SOAP viewer: Improve detection of SOAP messages for clients who don't set the content-type properly (eg. Flash), and add resolution of references so SOAP display is now much improved.
- AMF3: Raw AMF3 object parsing support now added for content-type application/x-amf3-object
- Map Local: Add support for encoded URLs such as those with %20 in the path; these are now correctly converted before looking for the path/file on disc.
- UI: Column states are now remember on all tables in the UI, so you can now resize and rearrange to suit your preferences.
Version 3.1.3
Minor bug fixes, minor new features.
- Chart tab now includes charts for sizes, durations and types
- Request & Response can now be displayed combined on one split-panel (in Preferences)
- SSL handshake and certificate errors are now displayed in the tree
- Default single-response recording limit increased to 100MB
- Fixed Modal dialog lost-focus bug
- Fixed Mac OS X proxy configuration hang occurred on some systems
- Fix cookie parsing bug with last cookie attribute
- Add Unicode BOM parsing capability
- Change default text viewer tab size to 4 spaces from 8 spaces
- Map tool now changes the request port if the protocol is changed
- Version checker now reports OS and Java version for statistical purposes
Version 3.1.2
Minor bug fixes.
- Fix tool and settings dialog sizing
- Fix fault in Summary and Chart views for non-HTTP requests
- Improved file popups for Map Local and Save All
- Fix Recording settings bug where max requests can't be turned off
- ICO and BMP viewers now work on Java 1.4
Version 3.1.1
Minor bug fixes.
- AMF3 serialization fix (when used with edit function)
- Proxy settings revert back to HTTP when SOCKS proxy disabled
- Activating tools from request popup menu now correctly activated Selected Hosts mode if required
Version 3.1
Major new features. Please note this version drops support for Java 1.3.
- User Interface
- Dialog form layouts rewritten to unify layouts and show correct layout cross-platform (thanks to MigLayout)
- Add "Minimise to System Tray" option in Preferences on Windows
- Memory usage indicator now an option in Preferences
- SSL
- Map and Map Local tools now supported with SSL
- New SSL root certificate with increased key sizes
- Viewers
- ICO support
- BMP support
- AMF tree now shows references inline to improve readability
- AMF3 bug fix and improvements
- Improved detection of resource types (using filename if mime-type unavailable)
- Web Interface for controlling Charles added (Proxy menu)
- SOCKS transparent proxying
- Miscellaneous
- Pattern matching can now include protocol (eg. http/https)
- Tray icon now includes Start/Stop Recording and Throttling
- Bug fixes
- System proxy settings correctly reverted on Windows shutdown
- Quit cleanly when another instance of Charles already running
Version 3.0.4
Minor bug fixes
- SSL proxying bug on Java 1.4 fixed (was introduced in 3.0.3)
Version 3.0.3 re-release
Fixes launch bug on computers that haven't used Charles before
Version 3.0.3
Various improvements and minor bug fixes
- Repeat and Edit functions now support SSL
- SSL certificates now more closely match the actual server certificate
- Chart now shows requests that are still in progress
- Client Process tool added, to show which application is responsible for each request
- DNS Spoofing now works through External Proxy servers
- AMF viewer: double-click to resolve a reference restored
- ASCII viewer renamed to Text
- Port numbers are now shown, if appropriate, in the Sequence and Summary views
- Map Local mime-type handling improved for server-side scripting pages and unknown file types
- Rewrite tool with body rules now doesn't mangle binaries
- SSL latency now properly reported
- SSL latency bug for kept-alive connections fixed
- Mozilla Firefox configuration bug fixed when profile directory couldn't be found
- Mozilla Firefox profile directory can now be detected correctly on Java 1.4 on non-English Windows systems
- Windows tray-icon functionality restored
- Windows proxy settings are now only set for HTTP and SSL as Charles doesn't support FTP proxying
- Windows configuration file moved to workaround Vista permissions issue
- Windows installer removes Start option to workaround Vista user elevation issue
Version 3.0.2
Minor bug fixes and improvements
- Copy to Clipboard: inconsistent image copying fixed
- Microsoft Proxy Server as external proxy: bug with HTTPS connections fixed (thanks to Frans for his help debugging this)
- DNS Spoofing and Map tools conflict resolved
- JSON mime types now includes application/x-json
- Windows: Installer UI changed
- Windows: Launcher now supports IBM JRE
- Mac OS X: Download now just includes the application
- Mac OS X: Charles Proxy Settings helper now shows the Charles icon
- Mac OS X: Upgrade to Quaqua 3.7.7, improves file chooser dialogs
Version 3.0.1
Minor bug fixes
- The new JDIC tray icon code caused crashes on some Windows computers. The tray icon has been removed while a fix for this is investigated.
- AMF Detail view parsing bug fixed
Version 3.0
Major new features and improvements
- Editing and repeating of requests, including editing of AMF / Flash Remoting requests
- Repeat multiple requests and Repeat Advanced for performance testing
- Chart view of loading timeline
- Local mapping tool to facilitate local development: use local files as if they are part of a website
- Remote mapping tool to use parts of one website as if they were part of another
- User Interface enhancements
Also changed and improved:
- Summary table user interface: icons added, separate host name column added
- Firefox 2 CSS: images loaded from CSS files have the CSS as their referer; now included in the summary of resources loaded for a page
- Win32 launcher changed to provide Charles with its own task bar entry and Charles.exe in process list
- Win32 application icon added to task bar and task switcher
- No Caching tool now respects existing cache-control headers and adds stronger cache-control headers to bust caching
- SWF viewer shows font information
- Copy to Clipboard expanded to copy text and images
- "General" tab improvements to include more information, including more summary data and compression statistics
- and many other minor bug fixes and improvements
For previous versions please see the full version history.