Chapter 5. Foot Printing of a Web Server and a Web Application
So far, we have read four chapters that are related from the data link layer to the transport layer. Now, we move on to application layer penetration testing. In this chapter, we will go through the following topics:
- The concept of foot printing of a web server
- Introducing information gathering
- HTTP header checking
- Information gathering of a website from smathwhois.com by the parser BeautifulSoup
- Banner grabbing of a website
- Hardening of a web server
The concept of foot printing of a web server
The concept of penetration testing cannot be explained or performed in a single step; therefore, it has been divided into several steps. Foot printing is the first step in pentesting, where an attacker ...
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