Practical Web Penetration Testing

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The -y in the upgrade command will accept the prompts automatically."

A block of code is set as follows:

class ServiceDTO:    # Class Constructor    def __init__(self, port, name, description):        self.description = description        self.port = port        self.name = name

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

meterpreter > getsystem

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. ...