How to do it...

The following are the steps you can go through to listen to all HTTP traffic using Burp:

  1. Open the Firefox browser and go to Options.
  2. In the General tab, scroll down to the Network Proxy section and then click Settings.
  3. In the Connection Settings, select Manual proxy configuration and type in the IP address of 127.0.0.1 with port 8080. Select the Use this proxy server for all protocols checkbox:
  1. Make sure the No proxy for the textbox is blank, as shown in the following screenshot, and then click OK:
  1. With the OWASP BWA VM running in the background and using Firefox to browse to the URL specific to your machine (that is, ...

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