Recent Developments
For discussion on the latest changes to Charles, please see Karl’s blog.
How to Configure Proxy on Mac? Every browser has its settings to customize the proxy server, including Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. Follow these quick steps to configure Mac’s proxy by making a few quick changes in the default system settings. Tap the Apple menu icon in the top-left corner and select “System Preferences.” Tap on. MacProxy provides system-wide network proxy support for the Mac. It forwards network traffic from applications that do not support proxies and avoids complex setup for applications that do.
Charles 4.5.6 released with minor bug fixes and patched security vulnerability. Read more.
Charles 4.5.5 released including bug fixes for SSL certificate imports. Read more.
Charles 4.5.2 released including new features, bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
Charles 4.2.8 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 4.2.7 released with minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
Charles Security Bulletin for a local privilege escalation in Charles 4.2 and 3.12.1 and earlier. Read more.
Charles 4.2.5 released with major bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
Charles for iOS released. Read more.
Charles 4.2.1 released with important bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 4.2 released with major new TLS debugging capability, minor improvements and bug fixes including macOS High Sierra support. Read more.
Charles 4.1.4 released with minor improvements and bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 4.1.3 released including Brotli compression support and other minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
Charles 4.1.2 released with bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
Charles 4.1.1 released with bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 4.1 released including major new features and bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 4.0.2 released including bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
Charles 4.0.1 released including bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 3.11.6 released with support for macOS Sierra and minor bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 4 released featuring HTTP 2, IPv6 and improved look and feel. Read more.
Charles 3.11.5 released including minor bug fixes; especially fixes SSL certificate installation on Android. Read more.
Charles 3.11.4 released with support for ATS on iOS 9 and crash fixes for older versions of Mac OS X. Read more.
Charles v3.11.3 released including bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
Charles v3.11.2 released with SSL and Websockets improvements. Read more.
Charles 3.11 released including major new features. Read more.
Charles 3.10.2 released with bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
Charles 3.10.1 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 3.10 released with improved SSL (new SSL CA certificate install required), major new features and improvements. Read more.
Charles v3.9.3 released with improvements to SSL support, Mac OS X Yosemite support and other minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
Charles v3.9.2 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 3.9.1 released with minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
Charles 3.9 released with major new features and bug fixes, including the ability to 'focus' on hosts so they are separated from the noise. Read more.
Charles 3.8.3 released with support for Mac OS X Mavericks and minor bug fixes. Happy Mavericks Day. Read more.
Charles 3.8.2 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 3.8.1 released with minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
Charles 3.8 has been released with new features and bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 3.7 has been released. Includes new features, bundled Java runtime (so you don’t need to install Java anymore), and bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 3.7 beta 2 has been released. This changes the SSL signing for Charles on Mac OS X to use Apple's new Developer ID code-signing. Read more.
Charles v3.6.5 released including bug fixes and minor changes. Read more.
Charles v3.6.4 released including major bug fixes and enhancements. Read more.
Charles v3.6.3 released including minor bug fixes. Read more.
Charles v3.6.1 released including minor enhancements and bug fixes. Read more.
Charles v3.6 released including new features, enhancements and bug fixes. New features include HAR and SAZ file import. Read more.
Charles v3.5.2 released including bug fixes and minor new features. Read more.
Charles 3.5.1 released. Minor bug fixes. Read more.
Charles 3.5 released. Major new features, bug fixes and enhancements.
Charles 3.4.1 released. Minor features and bug fixes.
Charles 3.4 released. Major changes especially to SSL.
New website launched. Follow @charlesproxy on Twitter. Say hi in San Francisco when I'm there for WWDC!
Charles 3.3.1 released. Minor new features and bug fixes. Experimental 64 bit Windows support. Read more.
Charles 3.3 released. Major new features. Download
Charles Autoconfiguration add-on for Mozilla Firefox adds support for Firefox 3.1
Charles 3.2.3 released. Minor new features and bug fixes.
Charles 3.2.2 released. Minor new features and bug fixes.
Charles 3.2.1 released. Minor new features and bug fixes.
Charles 3.2 released. Major new features. Release Notes
Charles 3.2 public beta released. Download and more information on my blog.
Charles 3.1.4 released. Bug fixes and minor new features.
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Charles Mozilla Firefox add-on updated for compatibility with Firefox 3.0.
Charles 3.1.3 released. 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
- SSL handshake and certificate errors are now displayed in the tree
Charles 3.1.2 released. Minor bug fixes.
Charles 3.1.1 released. Minor bug fixes.
Charles 3.1 released.
Charles 3.0.4 released. Fixes SSL bug on Java 1.4.
Charles 3.0.3 re-released. Fixes launch bug on computers that haven't used Charles before.
Charles 3.0.3 released. Various improvements and minor bug fixes.
Charles 3.0.2 released. Minor bug fixes and improvements.
Charles 3.0.1 released. Minor bug fixes.
Charles 3.0 released. Major new features and improvements
Charles 3.0 public beta released.
Charles v2.6.4 release. Minor bug fixes:
- IBM JDK compatibility
- Improved malformed Referer header support
Charles v2.6.3 release. Minor bug fixes:
- Fixed Port Forwarding fault introduced in v2.6.2
Charles v2.6.2 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:
- No more recording limits. Large responses are now saved to temporary files, reducing memory usage.
- MTU support in the throttle settings
- AMF3 / Flex 2 bug fixes
Charles v2.6.1 release. Minor bug fixes and improvements:
- SOAP information visible while response is still loading
- AMF3 externalizable object parsing regression fixed
- AMF view for AMF3/Flex messages simplified to hide Flex implementation details
Charles v2.6 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:
- Major UI overhaul
- JSON and JSON-RPC support
- SOAP support
Charles v2.5 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:
- Major UI improvements
- Support for new filetypes including FLV
- Major improvements to AMF / Flash remoting viewer
- Thank you to everyone who made suggestions and participated in the long testing process.
Charles v2.4.2 release. Minor improvements and bug fixes including:
- Support for request body compression (used by web services)
- Fix for parsing of AMFPHP responses
- Improvements to AMF viewer
Charles v2.4.1 release. Minor improvements and bug fixes including:
- Firefox extension improved
- AMF 0 and AMF 3 parsing improved
- Look and Feel changes to give a greater (and more consistent) range of font sizes in the Charles look and feel
- SSL error reporting improved when a connection cannot be made to a remote host
- Port Forwarding tool and Reverse Proxy tool re-bind exception fixed
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Charles v2.4 release. Major new features, improvements and bug fixes including:
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- AMF 3 support
- SSL support for IBM JDK (thanks to Lance Bader for helping solve this)
- Automatic Update Checking
- Documentation wiki open to public
Charles v2.3 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:
- Proxy implementation improvements including better handling of keep-alive connections
- SOCKS proxy added, so any SOCKSified application can now run through Charles
- External proxies configuration improvements including authentication
- Flash Remoting / AMF viewer improvements
- Dynamic proxy port support, for multiuser systems
Charles v2.2.1 release. Minor improvements and bug fixes including:
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- Further improved Firefox proxy configuration
- Port Forwarding enhancements including port ranges and UDP forwarding
- Bug fixes for Reverse Proxy and AMF viewer
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Charles v2.2 released. Major enhancements and bug fixes including:
- Improved Firefox proxy configuration
- XML viewer improvements
- Line numbers displayed in ASCII viewer
Charles v2.1 released. Major new features and enhancements including:
- Automatic Firefox proxy configuration
- Formatted form posts and query string information
- Parsing of SWF and AMF (Flash Remoting) binary formats
Charles v2.0 released. Major enhancements and improvements.
In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or another resource available from a different server and the proxy server evaluates the request as a way to simplify and control its complexity.
If your computer is connected to a local network that’s protected from the Internet by a firewall, you may need to specify proxy servers or use the FTP passive mode (PASV) to access some Internet sites. When you configure a proxy server on your Mac, applications will send their network traffic through the proxy server before going to their destination.
The proxy server that you set below will be used by Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and other applications that respect your system proxy settings. Some applications like Mozilla Firefox, have their own custom proxy settings.
Steps To Manually Change Your Proxy Server Settings in Mac:
1. Open the System Preferences application in your Dock, or else go to the Apple menu and click System Preferences. Now go to Network Panel icon.
2. The Internet panel shows all the available interfaces. Click the interface you want to configure (usually Ethernet or Wi-Fi).
3. Now Click the “Advanced” button at the bottom right corner of the Network window.
4. Select the “Proxies” tab. If you configure your proxy server settings automatically, select Auto Proxy Discovery to automatically discover proxy servers, or select Automatic Proxy Configuration. If you never want your Mac to use a proxy, even if one is detected with WPAD, leave this box unchecked.
5. If you’re using an automatic proxy configuration (PAC) file. If you select Automatic Proxy Configuration, enter the address of the PAC file in the URL field. Check with your network administrator if you need more information. For example, this setting may be used on business or school networks. If you don’t need to use an automatic proxy configuration script to configure your proxy settings, leave this box unchecked.
6. If you want to manually configure a proxy, you’ll need to enable one or more of the “Web Proxy (HTTP)”, “Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS)”, “FTP Proxy”, “SOCKS Proxy”, “Streaming Proxy (RTSP)”, and “Gopher Proxy” checkboxes.
7. Select a proxy server, such as FTP Proxy, then type its address and port number in the fields on the right. Select the “Proxy server requires password” checkbox if the proxy server is protected by a password. Enter your account name and password in the Username and Password fields. If you don’t want to manually configure a proxy, ensure all these boxes are unchecked.
8. The “Exclude simple hostnames” checkbox allows you to bypass the proxy for all “simple hostnames”. These are often used on local networks and intranets.
9. You can also choose to bypass proxy settings for specific computers on the Internet (hosts) and segments of the Internet (domains) by adding the address of the host or domain in the “Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains” field.
To add your own domain names and addresses, just separate each with a comma and space. For example, to tell your Mac to access alltop9.com without going through the proxy, you’d change the line to *.local, 192.254/16, alltop9.com
If you have issues connecting to FTP servers after configuring an FTP proxy, ensure the “Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)” option is enabled at the bottom of the window here. It’s enabled by default. Click “OK” to save your settings and click “Apply” and your changes will take effect.
This is the step-by-step process to configure your proxy server settings in Mac. If you face any difficulties in the above process, let us know in the comments below. We are happy to help you with required solutions.
If you know any other methods to configure proxy server settings in Mac, do let us know in your comments. We will try it and update the article.
2. The Internet panel shows all the available interfaces. Click the interface you want to configure (usually Ethernet or Wi-Fi).
3. Now Click the “Advanced” button at the bottom right corner of the Network window.
4. Select the “Proxies” tab. If you configure your proxy server settings automatically, select Auto Proxy Discovery to automatically discover proxy servers, or select Automatic Proxy Configuration. If you never want your Mac to use a proxy, even if one is detected with WPAD, leave this box unchecked.
5. If you’re using an automatic proxy configuration (PAC) file. If you select Automatic Proxy Configuration, enter the address of the PAC file in the URL field. Check with your network administrator if you need more information. For example, this setting may be used on business or school networks. If you don’t need to use an automatic proxy configuration script to configure your proxy settings, leave this box unchecked.
6. If you want to manually configure a proxy, you’ll need to enable one or more of the “Web Proxy (HTTP)”, “Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS)”, “FTP Proxy”, “SOCKS Proxy”, “Streaming Proxy (RTSP)”, and “Gopher Proxy” checkboxes.
7. Select a proxy server, such as FTP Proxy, then type its address and port number in the fields on the right. Select the “Proxy server requires password” checkbox if the proxy server is protected by a password. Enter your account name and password in the Username and Password fields. If you don’t want to manually configure a proxy, ensure all these boxes are unchecked.
8. The “Exclude simple hostnames” checkbox allows you to bypass the proxy for all “simple hostnames”. These are often used on local networks and intranets.
9. You can also choose to bypass proxy settings for specific computers on the Internet (hosts) and segments of the Internet (domains) by adding the address of the host or domain in the “Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains” field.
To add your own domain names and addresses, just separate each with a comma and space. For example, to tell your Mac to access alltop9.com without going through the proxy, you’d change the line to *.local, 192.254/16, alltop9.com
If you have issues connecting to FTP servers after configuring an FTP proxy, ensure the “Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)” option is enabled at the bottom of the window here. It’s enabled by default. Click “OK” to save your settings and click “Apply” and your changes will take effect.
This is the step-by-step process to configure your proxy server settings in Mac. If you face any difficulties in the above process, let us know in the comments below. We are happy to help you with required solutions.
If you know any other methods to configure proxy server settings in Mac, do let us know in your comments. We will try it and update the article.