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Burp Suite Essentials
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Burp Suite Essentials

by Akash Mahajan
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
3h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3. Setting the Scope and Dealing with Upstream Proxies

In the preceding chapter, we saw how to set up Mozilla Firefox with the FoxyProxy Standard add-on to create a selective, pattern-based forwarding process. This allows us to ensure that only white-listed traffic from our browser reaches Burp. This is something that Burp allows us to set with its configuration options itself. Think of it like this: less traffic reaching Burp ensures that Burp is dealing with legitimate traffic, and its filters are working on ensuring that we remain within our scope.

As a security professional testing web application, scope is a term you hear and read about everywhere. Many times, we are expected to test only parts of an application, and usually, the scope ...

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