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Practical Web Penetration Testing
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Practical Web Penetration Testing

by Gus Khawaja
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
7h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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BURP SSL certificate

To use Burp Proxy most effectively with HTTPS websites, you will need to install Burp's CA certificate as a trusted root in your browser. If you have not already done so, configure your browser to use Burp as its proxy, and configure Burp to generate a CA-signed, per-host certificate (this is the default setting). Let's look at how to install it in Kali's Firefox browser:

  1. Open Firefox and browse to http://burp, then click on the CA Certificate button to download it locally to your Downloads folder:
  1. After you've downloaded your CA file, open the Firefox Preferences from the menu. Click on the Advanced tab in the left ...
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