Lion Cipher Lab
Intercept your first web request with Burp Suite
- AppSec / DevSecOps
- Intermediate
- ~40 min
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
Almost every hands-on web-security exercise you'll ever meet — training rooms, bug-bounty write-ups, pentest methodology — opens with "proxy the request through Burp" and simply assumes you can. Burp Suite's intercepting proxy sits between your browser and a web server so you can pause the HTTP conversation, read the exact bytes going back and forth, and forward them on. Being able to install it, wire your browser to it, catch one real request, and read it is the single most common unspoken prerequisite in applied web security. This lab teaches only that setup-and-intercept literacy, on a…
What you'll learn
- installing Burp Suite Community Edition
- routing browser traffic through an intercepting proxy
- pausing a live HTTP request
- reading a raw HTTP request
- forwarding, dropping & toggling intercept
- authorized-use discipline
Steps in this lab
- The one rule, before you intercept anything
- What Burp Suite is, in one breath
- Install Burp Suite Community Edition
- Get your browser's traffic flowing through Burp
- Line up an authorized target
- Turn on intercept and catch one request
- Read the raw request, then forward it
- What you just did — and every room it unlocks