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Purpose

This article gives the steps to setup Charles Proxy on Mac OS X Yosemite. It can be used to proxy your CLI traffic to a work proxy server. The main benefit is if you have to pass credentials it can be securely stored in Charles Proxy (One place) and all your CLI commands and Dev tools point to it locally without the need for credentials.

Download and Install

Uncheck Mac OS X Proxy

Since we'll be setting up all the proxy settings in Charles under External Proxy Settings... we'll want to turn this option off.

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Setup External Proxy

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. The Mac Hacker's Handbook covers a lot of useful technical topics surrounding vulnerability analysis and exploit development for Mac OS X. That said, it doesn't so much teach you directly, as guide your learning. For example, it introduces the use of DTrace on OS X for dynamic analysis.

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Select menu Proxy | External Proxy Settings...
Check the box for Use external proxy servers
Check the box for Web Proxy (HTTP)
Enter proxy hostname not URL and Port number
Enter proxy server username and password if required
Check the box for Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS)
Enter proxy hostname not URL and Port number
Enter proxy server username and password if required
Check the box for Always bypass external proxies for localhost
Enter exclusions list and Select OK
1. One IP address or name per line.

Proxy Settings

Set the Charles Proxy 'Proxy Settings'. Basically what port to listen on locally.

Select menu Proxy | Proxy Settings
Set the port to the default 8888 or pick a custom port.
Select the check box for Enable transparent HTTP proxying
Select OK

Configure CLI

Option 1 (Always set)

There's several ways you can get the Charles Proxy settings into your shell environment variables. Here's one way to allows have the settings in place. Meaning you'll always need to be running Charles Proxy while in the shell if you need network access.

Add environment variables to ~/.bash_profile

Option 2 (Turn settings on and off)

Another way you can get the Charles Proxy settings into your shell environment variables is to create a function to set and a function to unset. With the following, you can type proxy-on which will set the environment variables and then when done with the need for the proxy settings you can type proxy-off. This may be good for if you are on and off of a proxy network.

Add environment variables to ~/.bash_profile

Configure Test Kitchen

You must launch Charles Proxy and keep it running pretty much at all times or at least while doing CLI/Dev work that requires network access.

Troubleshooting

If you get an error that you can't save settings to the configuration you may need to change ownership of the application files.
If you don't have a license it will shutdown after about 10 minutes. You can relaunch it, apply a license or maybe cron something.

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TIP: Many StreetSmart Edge® menu items are available by right-clicking in the software. To right-click using a single-button Mac mouse, press and hold the CTRL button when you click. There may be additional methods found in the preferences of the device you use (Trackpad, Mighty Mouse, laptop touch pad, etc.).

1. Log in to www.Schwab.com and go to the Trade tab. Click Launch StreetSmart Edge.

2. In the next screen, click the Install button.

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3. Download CitrixReceiver.dmg. In Safari, the download will begin automatically. In Firefox, choose Save File and click OK.

A note for users running Mac OS X 10.5 or below:
The installer you will be downloading will be called CitrixReceiver11_2.dmg instead of CitrixReceiver.dmg. This is due to changes in Mac OS X from 10.6 onward. You will be installing an older version of the Citrix receiver which supports your version of Mac OS X. Your system specifications will be automatically detected and the correct version of the Citrix receiver will be downloaded.

4. Double-click on the downloaded file CitrixReceiver.dmg to begin the installation.

5. Click the Citrix Receiver window to bring it to the front, and then click Install Citrix Receiver.pkg.

6. Click Continue in the pop-up to allow the software to install.

7. Click Continue again to begin the installation.

8. Click Continue to view and agree to the Citrix License Agreement.

9. Click Agree to continue with installation.

10. Click Install to finally begin the installation.

11. Enter the Name and Password of the Macintosh administrator and click OK.

12. When the installation completes, click Close.

13. Close the Citrix Receiver window.

14. Close the Downloads window.

15. In the Citrix XenApp Log On screen, click the Log On button to continue. The Logon Type will always be Anonymous. No log on credentials are needed.

16. Click the StreetSmart Edge icon to launch.

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17. Log in to StreetSmart Edge

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