Chapter 6. Client-side and DDoS Attacks
In the previous chapter, you learned how to parse a web page as well as how to glean specific information from an HTML page. In this chapter, we will go through the following topics:
- Validation in a web page
- Types of validation
- Penetration testing of validations
- DoS attacks
- DDoS attacks
- Detection of DDoS
Introducing client-side validation
Often when you access a web page in your web browser, you open a form, fill the form, and submit it. During the filling of the form, some fields may have constraints such as the username, which should be unique; and the password, which should be greater than 8 characters, and these fields should not be empty. For this purpose, two types of validations are used, which are client-side ...
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