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Footprinting web services

Footprinting web services

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Footprinting web services

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- Footprinting web services involves identifying and gathering information about the web services that a target organization uses. This includes discovering and understanding the different web applications, the different APIs, the backend services that will interact with and support a web application. Now you can do this thing in many different ways. You can do manual exploration, so you can use your browser and tools to manually explore and interact with a target web application. And then you look for information on the services and the endpoints in the case of an API available within the environment. Or you can use different service discovery tools. These are automated tools that allow you to automate the exploration and of course the footprinting of that web applications. Now there are tools like WhatWeb, that we're going to see in the next few minutes. And the scanners, even scanners like Nmap or even Curl can identify technologies and services that are used by the target…

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