Nowadays, every website has an HTML form to complete for registration so that users can have access to that particular website. Since Internet crime is steadily increasing, how do we validate that the user who completed the form did so through your website? It is therefore necessary to know that no one has spoofed our form submission.
Before, we see how we can protect our forms from spoofing, let us see how we can spoof a form. By following these two ways we can alter the form submission:
Forging HTTP requests
Spoofing submissions
We can type our own requests by using telnet to access port 80. So, botheration of generating or modifying forms for every type of attack is overcome by this method as it might just use raw HTTP for alteration of form data. Because of this, we can say that this method has a higher degree of complexity than others.
Forging HTTP requests is a more advanced form of automating attacks.
In the following example, we are requesting...