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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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Actions on the intercepted requests

Once we have an intercepted request, we can send it to Repeater (Ctrl + R) to manipulate it one by one; we can send it to Intruder (Ctrl + I) to simulate an automated attack; we can send it for more spidering, an active scan or even to a Sequencer, Decoder, or Comparer (covered in the next chapter):

Actions on the intercepted requests

The question to ask is what should decide whether we should use Repeater or Intruder?. The short answer is, it is up to you. I personally use Repeater to figure out whether there is a flaw worth using Intruder or not. An active scan is always the last resort for the sake of completeness. This might change based on time ...

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