Reading | Essentials Security

📄️ Introduction

Last session we learned how browsers work, what HTTP and HTML are and how to use curl and wget to imitate a browser.

HTTP is a stateless protocol used to communicate over the internet.

All modern browsers have the ability to assist developers in creating, previewing, testing and debugging their web applications.

Some websites use sessions to remember their clients across multiple requests.

Path Traversal

The key takeaways from this session are:

Cookie Theft / Session Hijacking