The HEAD method is identical to GET, except that the server does not include a message body in the response; that is, the response of a HEAD request is just the header of the response to a GET request.
The HEAD method
by Juned Ahmed Ansari, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications
- Setting Up Your Lab with Kali Linux
- Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server
- Reconnaissance
- Information gathering
- Scanning – probing the target
- Summary
- Authentication and Session Management Flaws
- Authentication schemes in web applications
- Session management mechanisms
- Common authentication flaws in web applications
- Detecting and exploiting improper session management
- Preventing authentication and session attacks
- Summary
- Detecting and Exploiting Injection-Based Flaws
- Finding and Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities
- Cross-Site Request Forgery, Identification, and Exploitation
- Attacking Flaws in Cryptographic Implementations
- AJAX, HTML5, and Client-Side Attacks
- Other Common Security Flaws in Web Applications
- Using Automated Scanners on Web Applications
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