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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite
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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

by Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
366 pages
7h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with non-proxy-aware clients

A non-proxy-aware client, in this context, is a client that makes HTTP requests but has no easy way to configure proxy options, or has no proxy support at all.

Common examples of non-proxy-aware clients are thick client applications or browser plugins that do not use the browser's proxy options. Burp's support for invisible proxying allows non-proxy-aware clients to connect directly to a proxy listener. This allows Burp to intercept and modify traffic based on target mappings.

Architecturally, this works by setting up a local DNS entry for the remote target that the non-proxy-aware client communicates with. This DNS entry can be made in the local hosts file, as follows:

127.0.0.1 example.org

The client ...

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