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Comment generator plugin for Burp Suite

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Generates comments for selected request(s) based on regular expressions.

Usage

Select one or more HTTP messages (for example items in the top half of the HTTP history tab within Proxy. Click with the right mouse button to open the popup menu, and select Generate comment field....

A window appears with several options:

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As it can be seen on the example in the screenshot above the list, the regular expression uses the first (number 1) group after evaluation, so the expression must contain at least one group (delimited by parentheses). In regex, the 0th (also considered first by programmers) group contains the whole expression, hence the above clarification regarding our use of the first group, which is number 1, not 0.

The built-in regular expression engine of the Java runtime is used, their interpretation of the standard, including character classes and flags can be found in the JDK documentation of java.util.regex.Pattern.

Known issues

At least on Linux / OpenJDK hosts, the newly set messages don't get updated automatically, in these cases forcing a redraw manually (by clicking, scrolling, changing tabs, etc.) might be necessary.

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License

The whole project is available under MIT license, see LICENSE.txt.