While searching for text is useful, sometimes the amount of data presented becomes overwhelming. Especially, since we are using Burp to assist us in assessments, we need to be able to quickly filter and pay attention to what is relevant and ignore what is not.
In the Target Site map, we have a comprehensive display filter. Using the filter options, we can zero in to the exact requests that are of interest to us and hide all that is not. Have a look at the following screenshot:
In this comprehensive display filter, we can do many different kinds of filtering based on our requirements and what it is that we are trying to analyze.
We can filter using the following options:
Request type to show only in-scope requests, show only parameterized requests, and even hide items not found, as shown in the following screenshot:
Filtering by MIME type so that, based on our context, we can ignore images, cascading style sheets, and other HTML pages. None of the options are selected by default. Have...