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3. Proxy, User Options, and Project Options

Sagar Rahalkar1 
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Pune, Maharashtra, India
 

In the last chapter, we saw some basics of Burp Suite installation, setting up the vulnerable application and configuring different browsers to work along. In this chapter, we’ll get started with some basics of Burp Suite proxy along with several user and project options.

Proxy

Proxy is really the essence of Burp Suite. Leveraging the proxy functionality, Burp Suite is able to see all the traffic passing through it. In the previous chapters, we have already seen how Burp Suite works as Man-in-the-Middle and helps us intercept requests.

In order to make Burp ...

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