Spidering
Most of an application's functionality could be discovered just by navigating through the application; but as you reviewed in this book, there are features that are hidden in the requests and responses. For this reason, using a spidering tool during navigation is essential. Basically, all the different HTTP proxies we covered in Chapter 8, Top Bug Bounty Hunting Tools, have spidering tools. The basic idea of spidering is to extract all the links to internal or external resources from the request and responses in order to discover sections, entry points, and hidden resources that could be in the scope.
Let's look at how to use a spidering tool. In this example, I am going to use Burp Suite's spidering, but you can use another proxy ...
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