RE: java app question

["Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>]

> i am looking to pen test an app which is not a webapp :) . on browsing to
the url it launches a java 
> application using jnlp. 
>
> i used a network traffic sniffer to see the traffic, and it is making post
requests to several different urls 
> (e.g. webapp.com/generatereport etc.), and the response is of type
x-serialize object. 
> any suggestions on what could be things to look at for such a pentest? 

Rather than try and reverse the POST requests by looking at packet captures,
I would simply decompile the Java file using jad or JD-Core.  The code
generating those requests should be easy enough to find and read.

http://java.decompiler.free.fr/

PaulM





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