Coding the HTTP reverse shell

In this section, we'll cover the coding part for an HTTP reverse shell. On the client side, we'll be using a very high-level library to send our GET and POST requests. 

The library called Requests, which is available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/2.7.0#downloads, will make it much easier to do a GET or POST request in only a single line. Requests is a third-party library, so let's start by installing it. All you have to do is navigate through the Command Prompt to the folder that contains its setup file and issue python setup.py install.

To verify that the library has been installed successfully, open the Python interpreter, like we did earlier for  py2exe , and enter import requests. If no exceptions ...

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