From the course: Ethical Hacking: Mobile Devices and Platforms
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Mobile web testing - iOS Tutorial
From the course: Ethical Hacking: Mobile Devices and Platforms
Mobile web testing
- [Instructor] When we're testing websites, we'll often use a tool such as Burp Suite to intercept web traffic and allow us to inspect the web messages, change them and insert new ones. We can do the same with our mobile apps. When we normally connect, traffic would go from the mobile device directly to the web backend. When we use Burp Suite as a proxy, that traffic goes from the mobile app into Burp Suite and is then sent on to the backend application. Let's take a quick look at how we set up the Android phone to proxy. We can get to the proxy settings by long pressing the network name and selecting Modify Network. We can then check Show Advanced Options and select proxy manual and then we get to the proxy setup screen. All we need to do is set the proxy address to the IP address of our server hosting Burp Suite. Set the port to 8080 and we're ready to proxy mobile traffic. Web testing is out of scope for this course,…
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