For most Web-tier development the following Firefox plugins provide me a great set of tools to get my job done:
Lately however, I find myself needing to trick out my local hosts file for more and more work, in addition to needing to change JavaScript script behavior, on the fly, loaded from various hosts.
Charles lets you do that and a whole lot more. It’s become am integral part of my toolbox. It’s worth the license fee.
And its written in Java so your investment is cross-platform. I’ll be migrating to OS-X soon and not needing to find a replacement for this is great.
That deserves a w00t. Charles is awesome. Have you tried right-clicking on a request and hitting “Edit” yet? Just noticed that feature last week. Love it!
Dude – try Rewrite or Map Local utilities in Charles 🙂
It has saved my ass this past week.