How to do it...

We will walk through basic usage of Burp Suite to start testing embedded web applications. The following examples will be using the Burp Suite professional edition; however, the same setup steps can also be applied to the free edition:

  1. Set up Burp proxy listener settings to 127.0.0.1 with port 8080, as seen in the following screenshot:
  1. Set up browser proxy settings with FoxyProxy to our Burp Suite listener address we set in the previous step:
  1. Select the configured proxy to route all traffic to our Burp proxy listener:

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