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I use Charles very often, but I use it to see requests coming from a mobile device. Can I proxy SSL connections from mobile with this? Will it let me use a custom self signed cert to do the SSL proxy?

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You can intercept any http connection from the iOS simulator quite easily. For intercepting stuff on an actual device you require more extensive setup. We will publish docs how to do that soon.

> We will publish docs how to do that soon

Looking forward to this. I've just bought the app and being able to monitor e.g. what my iPad is doing would be great.

"There is SSL interception out of the box. Everything that has to do with SSL is controlled from the Keychain."

So I guess the answer is yes (although I haven't tried yet).

But my phone doesn't use OSX's keychain to handle SSL certs. :(

You can email yourself the proxy's CA certificate to the device and add it from within the Mail app.

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