Hacker News Reader

Side note: instead of buying Burp Suite, check out just pure free Chrome or Firefox browsers to watch your HTTP traffic -- they both have pretty good Developer Tools, even IE does. They will show you the returned HTML formatted, and let you change it.

View on HN

mitmproxy, Charles Web Proxy and Fiddler have also worked for me. I've never understood why someone would pay so much more for Burp if they're not going to use much of it. And for half of the rest, there's plenty of other tools or scripting languages you could use and save yourself a pile of money. I'd love to be convinced otherwise, after all I openly admit I haven't used Burp yet...

I use Burp (and much of its featureset) every day at work; that's why I used it here. The free edition does basically everything you could want except for saving / restoring states (request history, requests you modified, etc). I've also used Fiddler to great effect in the past, but the fact that Burp is written in Java makes it really convenient to use when you deal with multiple OSes.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com