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Write your own Python tool to footprint a web application

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Overview

In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to Learn basic functioning of a web application, Set up your private web Pentesting lab, Learn how to write python script to automatically footprint a web application.

Syllabus

  • By the Coursera Project Network Overview
    • By the end of this project, you will learn how to create your own web pentesting tool that will be able to footprint a web application.You will be able to use a popular python library for web scraping.You will be able to use docker and prepare your private web application lab. You will understand the basic functioning of web applications including the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) header information, you will learn how to write python scripts to read items from a text file, read web pages from a URL, define functions that could automate tasks , automatically check for headers information in web applications, present a report about the status of a specific web application server and make our tool portable.

Taught by

Baye Gaspard

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