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Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing Master the art of conducting modern pen testing attacks and techniques on your web application before the hacker does!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785284588
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prakhar Prasad Prakhar Prasad
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Rafay Baloch Rafay Baloch
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Preface 1. Common Security Protocols FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering 3. Cross-Site Scripting 4. Cross-Site Request Forgery 5. Exploiting SQL Injection 6. File Upload Vulnerabilities 7. Metasploit and Web 8. XML Attacks 9. Emerging Attack Vectors 10. OAuth 2.0 Security 11. API Testing Methodology Index

Learning the API

It is necessary to learn the API to gain more insight into how it is structured. This includes reading developer docs, making hundreds of requests with different request methods to a single endpoint and observing how it responds, and learning roles (user roles) if any that may be implemented, and understanding scopes related to the access token.

Developer documentation

A developer's documentation gives a great insight into any API. You can learn about API endpoints which are already available publicly for use. One can understand structure, data-types, permissions, and types of request methods, which are accepted by the endpoint.

As an example shown below, Facebook's Graph API documentation gives a great understanding about any endpoint. We are looking at documentation of a user endpoint. Developer docs give you an idea about which request methods are accepted by the endpoint and what type of data needs to be sent at that endpoint.

Developer documentation

GraphAPI documentation (https:/...

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