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Fiddler Notes and UseCases

Oct 16, 2021 - 6 minute read - Tools Proxies Case Study Technical Web Testing

This is a collation of edited older posts on Fiddler, explaining how I usee it to bypass restrictive proxy settings for tool configuration, remove headers, change browser verbs when accessing pages.

API Testing Challenges - How To Use Simulation Mode

Aug 1, 2021 - 4 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to use the Simulation Mode in API Challenges.

API Testing Challenges - How To Use Mirror Mode

Aug 1, 2021 - 2 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to use the Mirror Mode in API Challenges.

API Testing Challenges 37 and 38 - How To - Use Bearer Tokens

Jul 25, 2021 - 4 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the Bearer Token challenges to GET and POST the secret note.

API Testing Challenges 35 and 36 - How To - POST Unauthorised 401 403

Jul 25, 2021 - 3 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the Unauthorised POST secret note challenges, which return status codes of 401 and 403 and fail to amend the secret note.

API Testing Challenges 34 - How To - POST amend secret note 200

Jul 25, 2021 - 3 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the POST secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 200 and amends the secret note.

API Testing Challenges 33 - How To - GET authorized secret note 200

Jul 25, 2021 - 2 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the GET Authorized secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 200 and the secret note.

API Testing Challenges 32 - How To - unauthorized secret note 401

Jul 25, 2021 - 2 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the unauthorized secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 401 Unauthorized.

API Testing Challenges 31 - How To - forbidden secret note 403

Jul 24, 2021 - 2 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the unauthorized secret note challenge, which returns a status code of 403 Forbidden.

API Testing Challenges 30 - How To - authentication passed 201

Jul 24, 2021 - 3 minute read - API Testing API Challenges Evil Tester

This post and video shows how to complete the basic auth authentication using username and password challenge number 30, which returns a status code of 201.