Generates comments for selected request(s) based on regular expressions.
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:
- A regular expression can be entered in the text field, the first group will become the comment on the selected items.
- The dropdown list on the top of the window determines which input the regular expression is evaluated on; request or response.
- Items that already have comments can be ignored or overwritten, depending on a checkbox.
- The behavior of the regular expression engine can be fine tuned with the flags that Java provides (see below).
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.
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.
- (For testing) install JUnit, put the JARs into
lib - Execute
ant, and you'll have the plugin ready inburp-commentator.jar
- JDK 1.6+ (tested on OpenJDK
1.8.0_111, Debian/Ubuntu package:openjdk-8-jdk) - Apache ANT (Debian/Ubuntu package:
ant) - JUnit 4+ (only required for testing)
The whole project is available under MIT license, see LICENSE.txt.