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Burp Suite Essentials

You're reading from   Burp Suite Essentials Discover the secrets of web application pentesting using Burp Suite, the best tool for the job

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783550111
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Akash Mahajan Akash Mahajan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Burp 2. Configuring Browsers to Proxy through Burp FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting the Scope and Dealing with Upstream Proxies 4. SSL and Other Advanced Settings 5. Using Burp Tools As a Power User – Part 1 6. Using Burp Tools As a Power User – Part 2 7. Searching, Extracting, Pattern Matching, and More 8. Using Engagement Tools and Other Utilities 9. Using Burp Extensions and Writing Your Own 10. Saving Securely, Backing Up, and Other Maintenance Activities 11. Resources, References, and Links Index

Spidering

Spidering or web crawling, as it is better known, is the process of automatically following all the links on a web page to discover both static and dynamic web resources of the web application. Burp uses the Spider tool to automate the mapping of an application.

The Burp documentation recommends that we complete our manual preparation and fill up the Target site map with what is currently visible to the browser and Burp Suite. Spidering, or crawling, of a website is a pretty intensive and performance-hungry activity. This is one of the main reasons that, before we plan to spider a production website, we should think really long and hard about any adverse effects on the performance of the website for its users while spidering is going on.

Along with the site performance, websites with rich content, such as Ajax and Adobe Flash-based content, may not get completely crawled as regular crawlers can't understand how to interact with such elements. So, parts of the functionality...

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