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Highlight built-in browser's traffic in Proxy History

Daniel | Last updated: Dec 01, 2020 01:14PM UTC

It would be great if you can show requests made by Burp's built-in browser in a different colour to those requests generated by an external browser pointing at Burp. This would be really useful for when you are testing with different user accounts logged in at the same time, i.e. one user in Firefox and another via the built-in browser, so you can quickly identify their separate traffic in Proxy History. If this could be achieved, and configurable, that would really make a difference and may help to quickly identify privesc issues, by easily identifying differences in the web traffic. Cheers!

Uthman, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Dec 01, 2020 01:48PM UTC

Thanks a lot for this request. You should be able to achieve this already by using the Request Highlighter (https://portswigger.net/bappstore/11729a617d8d4d3b87c82e34b71885c3) extension (or searching for 'Chrome/87.0.4280.66' with the Filter in the Proxy History). The requests sent from the Chromium browser will include 'Chrome/87.0.4280.66' in the User-Agent header. This may differ in each version of Burp since it may be using a different version of the embedded browser. However, the latest one is 87.0.4280.66. Please try this: Enable Request Highlighter > Navigate to a request sent through Chromium > Highlight 'Chrome/87.0.4280.66' in the User-Agent header > right-click > Request highlighter - add highlighter > select a colour.

Daniel | Last updated: Dec 01, 2020 02:10PM UTC

Yep, that works a treat, perfect! Can't believe I've lived so long without that extension, cheers!

Uthman, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Dec 01, 2020 02:17PM UTC

Hi Daniel, You are welcome!

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