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Prateek
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It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. | Charles is a web proxy (HTTP Proxy / HTTP Monitor) that runs on your own computer. Your web browser (or any other Internet application) is then configured to access the Internet through Charles, and Charles is then able to record and display for you all of the data that is sent and received. | Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform. |
Compact layout;HTTP requests with file upload support;Formatted API responses for JSON and XML;Image previews;Request history;Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, and other common auth helpers;Autocomplete for URL and header values;Key/value editors for adding parameters or header values. Works for URL parameters too.;Use environment variables to easily shift between settings. Great for testing production, staging or local setups.;Keyboard shortcuts to maximize your productivity;Automatically generated web documentation;Mock servers hosted on Postman’s cloud;API monitoring run from Postman cloud | SSL Proxying – view SSL requests and responses in plain text;Bandwidth Throttling to simulate slower Internet connections including latency;AJAX debugging – view XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or as text;AMF – view the contents of Flash Remoting / Flex Remoting messages as a tree;Repeat requests to test back-end changes;Edit requests to test different inputs;Breakpoints to intercept and edit requests or responses;Validate recorded HTML, CSS and RSS/atom responses using the W3C validator | Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk;
OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs;
Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics;
IP-restriction: Whitelist or blacklist IPs that can make requests;
Authentication: Manage consumer credentials query string and header tokens;
Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on IP or authentication;
Transformations: Add, remove or manipulate HTTP params and headers on-the-fly;
CORS: Enable cross-origin requests to your APIs that would otherwise be blocked;
Anything: Need custom functionality? Extend Kong with your own Lua plugins; |
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