Python Ethical Hacking

HTTP REQUESTS

BASIC INFORMATION FLOW

• The user clicks on a link.
• HTML website generates a request(client-side)
• The request is sent to the server.
• The server performs the requests(server-side)
• Sends response back.

GET vs POST

Two main methods used to send data to the web application:

1. Through the URL(Usually using GET).

    a. http://webisite.com/news.php?id=1

    b. http://website.com/?id=1

2. Through input elements(Usually using POST).

    a. Search boxes.

    b. Login boxes.

    c. ..etc.

Target website:http://10.0.0.45/mutillidae/index.php?page=dns-lookup.php

#!/usr/bin/env python

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.parse import urljoin


def request(url):
    try:
        return requests.get(url)
    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
        pass


target_url = "http://10.0.0.45/mutillidae/index.php?page=dns-lookup.php"
response = request(target_url)

parsed_html = BeautifulSoup(response.content.decode())
forms_list = parsed_html.findAll("form")

for form in forms_list:
    action = form.get("action")
    post_url = urljoin(target_url, action)
    method = form.get("method")

    inputs_list = form.findAll("input")
    post_data = {}
    for input in inputs_list:
        input_name = input.get("name")
        input_type = input.get("type")
        input_value = input.get("value")
        if input_type == "text":
            input_value = "test"

        post_data[input_name] = input_value
    result = requests.post(post_url, data=post_data)
    print(result.content.decode())

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