April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
11h 59m
English
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Generating Test Data
You can use any local proxy server to record a manual crawl of an application, provided it supports logging of all HTTP requests. Most proxy servers of this type also natively support SSL and can log the plain-text requests the browser makes when using HTTPS. Once the manual crawl is complete we should have a log file containing all the raw HTTP requests made to the application.
Our logParse script is designed to work with the Burp proxy tool. Burp is written in Java and you can freely download it from the PortSwigger web site mentioned earlier. You will also need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE), preferably Sun’s, installed on the machine on which you want to run Burp. You can download the most recent version of the Sun JRE from http://www.java.com/en/download/.
Once you download and run Burp, you need to make sure logging to a file has been enabled and you are not intercepting requests or responses. By logging without intercepting, the proxy server seamlessly passes all HTTP requests back and forth without requiring any user interaction, and it logs all requests to the log file. Figure 8-2 shows the Burp options necessary to generate the activity log.
Figure 8-2. Burp options screen
You also need to set your web browser to use Burp as a proxy server
(by default the hostname is localhost and the port
number is 5000). Because the goal of this phase is to inventory ...
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