Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The official documentation cautions users from double-clicking on the .jar file."

A block of code is set as follows:

# Since we didn't get a request, we will look at response. 
responseInfo = self._helpers.analyzeResponse(self._helpers.bytesToString(messageInfo.getResponse()))
# Many times, we figure out next steps based on the status code of the response.
self._stdout.println(responseInfo.getStatusCode())

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

java -jar -Xmx2048M /path/to/burpsuite.jar
java -jar -Xmx2G /path/to/burpsuite.jar

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "We need the JRE, so click on the Download button under JRE."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.