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Understanding message content - Burp Suite Tutorial
From the course: Burp Suite Essential Training
Understanding message content
- [Malcolm] We'll be spending a lot of time looking at messages. So it's useful to really understand how Burp Suite presents messages to us, and what's in them. Let's load some data by visiting Mutillidae on our meta exploitable server. We'll switch off intercept, open the browser, and we'll navigate to 10.0.2.20, Mutillidae. There were three panels we're interested in regarding messages. The contents panel shows the message exchange with the relevant server, the method and URL on the left and the timestamp, if we scroll to the right. In between, we have the response status, the length of the response, including the header, the type of content, and for HTML, the webpage title. Below that, we have the request and response panels, which we've already seen can be displayed as tabs side by side or vertically. The content is displayed in raw readable form as standard, but for the response message. We have the option of…
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