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Learning Python Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from Learning Python Web Penetration Testing Automate web penetration testing activities using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789533972

Length 138 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Christian Martorella

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Interacting with Web Applications

3. Web Crawling with Scrapy – Mapping the Application

4. Resources Discovery

5. Password Testing

6. Detecting and Exploiting SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

7. Intercepting HTTP Requests

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Index

HTTP protocol basics

In this section, we'll learn about the HTTP protocol, how it works, and the security aspects of it and which methods are supported when performing a request.

This will provide you with the basic knowledge of HTTP, which is important to understand how to build tools and test for security issues in web applications.

What is HTTP and how it works?

HTTP was designed to enable communication between clients and servers.

HTTP is a TCP/IP-based communication protocol operating in the application layer. Normally, we use a web browser to interact with web applications but in this training, we will leave the browser behind and use Python to talk with web applications. This protocol is media independent.

This means that any type of data can be sent via HTTP as long as the client and server know how to handle the data content. And it is stateless, which means that the HTTP server and the clients are aware of each other during the request to transaction only. Due to this characteristic...

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Authors (1)

Christian Martorella

Christian Martorella

Christian Martorella has been working in the field of information security for the last 18 years and is currently leading the product security team for Skyscanner. Earlier, he was the principal program manager in the Skype product security team at Microsoft. His current focus is security engineering and automation. He has contributed to open source security testing tools such as Wfuzz, theHarvester, and Metagoofil, all included in Kali, the penetration testing Linux distribution.

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