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Python Penetration Testing Essentials

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Essentials Techniques for ethical hacking with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789138962
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mohit Raj Mohit Raj
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Preface 1. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Scanning Pentesting 3. Sniffing and Penetration Testing 4. Network Attacks and Prevention 5. Wireless Pentesting 6. Honeypot – Building Traps for Attackers 7. Foot Printing a Web Server and a Web Application 8. Client-Side and DDoS Attacks 9. Pentesting SQL and XSS 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Fake web server reply

In this section, you will learn how to create a fake web server signature. This is the application layer code. This section's code has no relation to the previous code. In order to get the server signature or banner grabbing, I am going to use the ID Serve tool.

Let's see the fake_webserver.py code:

  • Use the following modules in the program. The logger1 module is used to create a log file. You will see the code of logger1 later:
   from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import logger1
  • Look at the following piece of code carefully. The fakewebserver class inherits the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class. The send_response method is overriding the method of the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class because we are sending our custom message as self.send_header('Server', "mohitraj"). The log_date_time_string and send_header...
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