BrowserAudit
BrowserAudit is a free web-based service for testing web browsers' implementations of various security policies. The BrowserAudit test suite currently contains over 400 tests exercising policies including the same-origin policy, the Content Security Policy (1.0), and HTTP Strict Transport Security.
BrowserAudit reports results in the browser as the tests are executed. Results are colour-coded using a simple "traffic light" system; advanced users may drill down to view the pass/fail status and the source code of individual tests by clicking on elements of the UI. Categories are also colour-coded according to whether they contain any failing tests.
This repository contains the full client-side and server-side source code, including configuration files, for the BrowserAudit web service. A database dump of the test suite can be found in a separate repository.
Installation
Please note that BrowserAudit is not a tool designed to be installed and run locally: it is to be hosted on a web server and is designed to be accessed from a web browser. The simplest way to use BrowserAudit is therefore to visit the public service we host at https://browseraudit.com.
Although this repository contains the full source code for BrowserAudit, note that it is not currently designed to be hosted on any domain other than
browseraudit.com; local DNS records for[test.]browseraudit.{com,org}will therefore have to be set if you intend to run a local installation of BrowserAudit.
BrowserAudit is designed to be hosted on a server running the following software:
- nginx, a HTTP(S) server
- PostgreSQL, a relational database server
- Memcached, a memory caching system
- The Go programming language
- Supervisor, a process control daemon
Configuration files for this software are available in the etc/ directory. Files and configuration directives specific to the live version of BrowserAudit, such as SSL certificates, are not included.
The BrowserAudit server itself depends upon the following non-standard Go libraries, all of which can be installed in the usual way ($ go get [url]):
code.google.com/p/gcfggithub.com/bradfitz/gomemcache/memcachegithub.com/gorilla/contextgithub.com/gorilla/muxgithub.com/jmoiron/sqlxgithub.com/lib/pqgithub.com/oschwald/geoip2-golang
After these dependencies are installed, the server can be compiled in the usual way for Go software:
$ cd /path/to/browseraudit$ go install
The BrowserAudit server is configured using the server.cfg file. A commented sample file, named server.cfg-dist, can be found in the root of the repository.
BrowserAudit makes use of geolocation data published by MaxMind. Either of the GeoIP2 (commercial) or GeoLite2 (free) geolocation databases is required to run the server.
License
BrowserAudit is free software, licensed under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. See the LICENSE file for further details.
Please cite BrowserAudit!
If you would like to cite BrowserAudit in your academic work, please cite our ISSTA 2015 conference paper:
Charlie Hothersall-Thomas, Sergio Maffeis and Chris Novakovic. BrowserAudit: Automated Testing of Browser Security Features. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2015), Baltimore, MD, USA, July 12-17, 2015. ACM 2015, ISBN 978-1-4503-3620-8.