Search

Search is one of the key interfaces when working with Burp Suite. This works well for most of us who are already familiar with search being the primary interface to find information on the web. The advantage of using Search as an interface is the fact that we stop caring about how much information is available to us as long as we are able to find the relevant information reliably and reasonably quickly.

To begin searching, we just need to go to Burp | Search in the menu bar. This provides us with a suite-wide search scope. Have a look at the following screenshot:

The search form is quite simple to understand. Any result that matches the simple text search will be returned from Target, Proxy, Scanner, and Repeater. As usual, we can use regular expressions, choose to negate the match, search only for in-scope items, and ignore case as well. The search will apply to all headers and body requests and responses. Have a look at the following screenshot:

In the Target Site map context menu...