Firefox Captive Portal Detection and Burp Suite

If you get requests like this in Burp, and you don’t need or want them…… you need to disable captive portal detection. Eg: GET /success.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com There isn’t a easy checkbox to configure this, however it is possible to disable using about:config. In a new tab, type about:config in the address bar and …

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Firefox SSH protocol handler (Linux)

I have a web page that lists servers I need to connect to. This page has several hyper links for each server to key webpages on that host. I wanted to be able to connect using ssh too, at the click of a link. (eg: ssh://myserver.example.com and ssh://user@myserver.example.com) I started doing a bit of research …

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