From the course: Application Security Testing and Debugging
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Interactive debugging in web applications
From the course: Application Security Testing and Debugging
Interactive debugging in web applications
Welcome to this video of interactive debugging in web applications. Imagine seeing every web request as it travels from browser to server, frozen in time, like pausing a video frame by frame. You can read the hidden data, change values on the fly, and hit play to see what breaks. This is interactive debugging, the difference between hoping your security works and actually watching how attackers manipulate it in real time. In this video, we'll use Burp Suite Community Edition to implement breakpoint strategies for security testing, master request interception techniques, and perform code path analysis for effective vulnerability isolation. By the end of this video, you will be able to configure Burp Suite for intercepting and modifying HTTP traffic, apply breakpoint strategies to pause and examine request execution, demonstrate request a manipulation using repeater and comparer tools, analyze code paths through systematic request modification. Let's begin by configuring Verbsuite for…
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