Hipster

building a hipster-aware pi home server

The end of the year is getting closer, fast, so I figured it was a perfect time to talk about my side project from last year. In this post I want to walk you through setting up a Raspberry Pi as a home server with all of your services running in docker containers with valid Let’s Encrypt certificates without exposing the Pi to the Internet. We will be setting up…

[Another] Intercepting Proxy

The last week I was stuck on a web-app assessment where everything was new-age HTML5, with AngularJS and websockets. Apart from the login sequence, all communication happened through websockets. Now intercepting websockets can be done in Burp and you can modify the requests/responses as you wish. There were however multiple issues with this. Polling – the webapp did a ‘ping’ request and if this was held up (intercept in burp)…