Doing Wizardry With Burp Suite Proxy Options

Introduction

It may not seem like it but burp suite proxy options can have several useful things in store for us. It took me quite a while to figure this out but burp suite has has even more features then it may seem at first.

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Proxy listeners

Several useful options exist in this section of the proxy options. We will be going through all of them.

Adding proxy listeners

We can add another proxy listener. This is just another proxy that we can send traffic throught and we can add one on another port or another ip adress. This can be very interesting in the following situations.

• If you want to test a mobile application and a web application at the same time you might want to have them enter at a different port
• If you are testing multiple physical IoT devices, it might be useful to add another proxy listener to give all devices a seperate listener.
• We might want to have burp suite listen on different ip adresses in network situations
• …