How to Read a Robots.txt File
Most of us in security know robots.txt as a way to find files or directories that webmasters don’t want found by a search engine (and mistakenly think this means it’s
beginner guides
URL Encoding: A Security Primer
A few previous posts have mentioned URL-encoding in passing, and while that might be sufficient for those walkthroughs, this post covers URL encoding in a bit more depth.
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A Brief Guide to Using curl
curl is a command-line tool that lets you create network requests. As with many command line tools, you can read the man page or look at the cURL project on Github (encompassing
Basic Web Skills: Setting Up Burp Suite
In the previous Dev Tools post, we covered basic ways to inspect page source, requests, cookies, and other webpage information. But there were some things pretty noticeably absent: how do you easily modify
Basic Web Skills: Dev Tools
This post covers Dev Tools and other simple ways of gathering basic info about a website. If you are brand-new to web applications, this post is for you. If you’re trying