To get the most out of this book

To work through the samples and examples in this book, you'll require the following:

• Burp Suite Professional
• A PC

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The secret variable is the data assigned by the user during his registration."

A block of code is set as follows:

GET /?url=http://localhost/server-status HTTP/1.1 
Host: example.com 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ mkdir css
$ cd css

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Click on New scan."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.