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Practical Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Practical Web Penetration Testing Secure web applications using Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624039
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gus Khawaja Gus Khawaja
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Preface 1. Building a Vulnerable Web Application Lab FREE CHAPTER 2. Kali Linux Installation 3. Delving Deep into the Usage of Kali Linux 4. All About Using Burp Suite 5. Understanding Web Application Vulnerabilities 6. Application Security Pre-Engagement 7. Application Threat Modeling 8. Source Code Review 9. Network Penetration Testing 10. Web Intrusion Tests 11. Pentest Automation Using Python 12. Nmap Cheat Sheet 13. Metasploit Cheat Sheet 14. Netcat Cheat Sheet 15. Networking Reference Section 16. Python Quick Reference 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Intercepting the requests/responses using Burp Proxy

The Proxy tool is the heart of Burp. In summary, it intercepts all of the requests and responses that you try to manually visit using your browser. It operates as a web proxy server, and it sits as a man-in-the-middle between your browser and destination web servers. This lets you intercept, inspect, and modify the raw traffic passing in both directions (request/response):

Setting the proxy in your browser

I'm assuming that you are using Kali Linux for your web application penetration testing, so you will be using Firefox or Iceweasel as a browser. You can install Chrome, but the instructions that I'm using are for Firefox (if you're using Chrome, don&apos...

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