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Learning Python Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from Learning Python Web Penetration Testing Automate web penetration testing activities using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789533972

Length 138 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Christian Martorella

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Interacting with Web Applications

3. Web Crawling with Scrapy – Mapping the Application

4. Resources Discovery

5. Password Testing

6. Detecting and Exploiting SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

7. Intercepting HTTP Requests

8. Other Books You May Enjoy

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HTTP proxy anatomy

In this section, we're going to learn what an HTTP proxy is, why proxies are needed and used, and what types of HTTP proxy exist.

What is an HTTP proxy?

An HTTP proxy is a server that acts as an intermediary between two communication parties. There is no direct communication between the client and the server. Instead, the client connects to the proxy and sends a request to it. Then the proxy will fetch the resources from the remote server, and finally return the response back to the client:

Why do we need a proxy?

We need a proxy for the following...

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Authors (1)

Christian Martorella

Christian Martorella

Christian Martorella has been working in the field of information security for the last 18 years and is currently leading the product security team for Skyscanner. Earlier, he was the principal program manager in the Skype product security team at Microsoft. His current focus is security engineering and automation. He has contributed to open source security testing tools such as Wfuzz, theHarvester, and Metagoofil, all included in Kali, the penetration testing Linux distribution.

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