To get the most out of this book

The only prerequisite for this course is to have basic programming or scripting experience, which will facilitate quick comprehension of the examples.

In terms of environment, you only need to download the virtual machine that contains the vulnerable target web application and the Python environment with all the libraries necessary. To run the virtual machine, you will need to install virtual box from https://www.virtualbox.org/.

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

Log in or register at www.packtpub.com.
Select the SUPPORT tab.
Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

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The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-Python-Web-Penetration-Testing. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/LearningPythonWebPenetrationTesting_ColorImages.pdf.

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 server returns an HTTP response with a 200 OK code, some header, and the test.html content if it exists on the server."

A block of code is set as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env
import requests
r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/ip')
print r.url
print 'Status code:'
print '\t[-]' + str(r.status_code) + '\n'

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

r = requests.get(self.url, auth=(self.username, self.password))
                if r.status_code == 200:
                    hit = "0"

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

python forzaBruta-forms.py -w http://www.scruffybank.com/check_login.php -t 5 -f pass.txt -p "username=admin&password=FUZZ"

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "We right-click on the page and we select View Page Source."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.