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Hacking Android
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Hacking Android

by Mohammed A. Imran, Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli
July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
7h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Strategies for testing mobile backend

As we have discussed, backend testing is pretty much web application testing, however, there are a few things we need to set up, to be able to see HTTP/HTTPS traffic in our favorite proxy, Burp Suite.

Setting up Burp Suite Proxy for testing

In order to test server-side vulnerabilities present in mobile apps, a proxy is an indispensable tool in a tester's arsenal. There are quite a few ways to configure the proxy based on what network you are using and the availability of an emulator/physical device. In this section, we will explore two such options to configure Burp Suite via Wi-Fi and APNs.

First step in this process is to make our proxy listen on a port, in our case it's 8082:

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