Recent Developments

For discussion on the latest changes to Charles, please see Karl’s blog.

• How to Create Certificates in Apple Pages. Certificates are a formal document needed to certify the involvement of a person in an event, organization or program whether in school, preschool, and workplace. Just like any certificate document, a good certificate must be both aesthetically pleasing and contain precise information about the award or accomplishment of its recipient.
• The certificate-related folks formerly known as Comodo are now known as Sectigo, and I think this is the root certificate certificate that you'll need to load, if you can't upgrade to Sierra or High Sierra or Mojave. There are variations of this certificate, depending on how current the system is, and yours isn't very current.

Specify the name of the file you want to save the SSL certificate to, keep the “X.509 Certificate (PEM)” format and click the Save button; Cool Tip: Check the expiration date of the SSL Certificate from the Linux command line! The fastest way! Read more → Internet Explorer. Download and save the SSL certificate of a website using Internet. Download Charles. The latest version of Charles is 4.5.6. Read the Release Notes. Paid Upgrade for Charles 3 to Charles 4. Charles 4 was a major update to Charles 3, and it is a paid upgrade.

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. Sibelius mac download full version. 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.

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

Charles v2.4 release. Major new features, improvements and bug fixes including:

• 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:

Download Charles Certificate For Mac Os

• 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:

• Further improved Firefox proxy configuration
• Port Forwarding enhancements including port ranges and UDP forwarding
• Bug fixes for Reverse Proxy and AMF viewer

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.

Someday you may need to get the SSL certificate of a website and save it locally.

For example, you could get an error saying that you can’t clone a Git repository due to a self-signed certificate and to resolve this issue you would need to download the SSL certificate and make it trusted by your Git client.

In the following article i am showing how to export the SSL certificate from a server (site URL) using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers as well as how to get SSL certificate from the command line, using openssl command.

Cool Tip: Create a self-signed SSL Certificate! Read more →

Export SSL Certificate

Google Chrome

Export the SSL certificate of a website using Google Chrome:

1. Click the Secure button (a padlock) in an address bar
2. Click the Show certificate button
3. Go to the Details tab
4. Click the Export button
5. Specify the name of the file you want to save the SSL certificate to, keep the “Base64-encoded ASCII, single certificate” format and click the Save button

Mozilla Firefox

Export the SSL certificate of a website using Mozilla Firefox:

1. Click the Site Identity button (a padlock) in an address bar
2. Click the Show connection details arrow
3. Click the More Information button
4. Click the View Certificate button
5. Go to the Details tab
6. Click the Export button
7. Specify the name of the file you want to save the SSL certificate to, keep the “X.509 Certificate (PEM)” format and click the Save button

Cool Tip: Check the expiration date of the SSL Certificate from the Linux command line! The fastest way! Read more →

Internet Explorer

Download and save the SSL certificate of a website using Internet Explorer:

1. Click the Security report button (a padlock) in an address bar
2. Click the View Certificate button
3. Go to the Details tab
4. Click the Copy to File.. button
5. Click the Next button
6. Select the “Base-64 encoded X.509 (.CER)” format and click the Next button
7. Specify the name of the file you want to save the SSL certificate to
8. Click the Next and the Finish buttons

OpenSSL

Get the SSL certificate of a website using openssl command:

Short explanation:

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Example: