In the previous two issues, you learnt how to make HTTP requests with python and how to parse HTML responses. It’s often enough but sometimes, you need the JS on the website to execute. For example, when looking for XSS vulnerabilities - no alert will pop in a dry...
Python for web hacking
Parsing HTML responses with Python
We are continuing the topic of using python as a hacking tool. Today, I will focus on processing HTTP responses using the Beautiful Soup library. It’s useful to parse HTML and it allows you to scrape data from websites without having to use headless browsers which...
Python as an HTTP client for hacking
Sometimes, you want to test a functionality but it is too complex to automate it with Burp. For example, it requires a few requests or some specific transformation. Maybe, some people can do magic on Burp’s macros but I am not one of them. That’s why in these specific...