Finding comments in source code
A common security issue is caused by good programming practices. During the development phase of web applications, developers will comment their code. This is very useful during this phase, as it helps with understanding the code and will serve as useful reminders for various reasons. However, when the web application is ready to be deployed in a production environment, it is best practice to remove all these comments as they may prove useful to an attacker.
This recipe will use a combination of Requests and BeautifulSoup in order to search a URL for comments, as well as searching for links on the page and searching those subsequent URLs for comments as well. The technique of following links from a page and analysing ...
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