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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533972
Length 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christian Martorella Christian Martorella
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Adding more information

In this section, we'll continue adding features to our BruteForcer in order to improve detection and to facilitate filtering.

First, we're going to add the code that will detect whether there was a redirection, then we're going to add the time it took for the request response transaction and the MD5 hash of the response. Finally, we're going to test the improved script.

Currently, the requests library returns a 200 status code for resources that follow the redirection as it is returning the status code from the last resource in the redirection chain. If we want to know whether there was a redirection, we need to check the history of requests:

  1. Let's go back to the Atom editor and open the file forzaBruta-3.py. We need to add this code in order to improve the redirection detection.
  2. After line 48, we get the request response. This...
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