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Proxying web traffic - Burp Suite Tutorial
From the course: Burp Suite Essential Training
Proxying web traffic
- [Malcolm] When we're testing websites, we'll often use a tool such as Burp Suite to intercept web traffic and allow us to inspect the web messages, change them, and insert new ones. This is known as proxying. When we normally connect, traffic would go from our browser directly to the website. When we use Burp Suite as a proxy, that goes from the browser into Burp Suite and is then sent onto the web application. Burp Suite's set up to do this and includes its own browser so that we can work directly from Burp Suite. However, if you want to use an external browser such as Kali's Firefox, then all we need to do is to configure it to direct its web traffic to Burp Suite. Let's see how we do that. Let's open our Firefox browser in Kali. This by default will directly connect to the website. To change Firefox to go via our proxy, we select the options menu at the top right and preferences. And we scroll down to network…
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