A Beginner’s Guide to Using HTTPX Tool: Tips and Tricks

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httpx

What is HTTPX ?

httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit allow to run multiple probers using retryablehttp library, it is designed to maintain the result reliability with increased threads.

Features of HTTPX ?

httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit allow to run multiple

  • Simple and modular code base making it easy to contribute.

  • Fast And fully configurable flags to probe multiple elements.

  • Supports multiple HTTP based probings.

  • Smart auto fallback from https to http as default.

  • Supports hosts, URLs and CIDR as input.

  • Handles edge cases doing retries, backoffs etc for handling WAFs.

 

Installation

httpx requires go1.17 to install successfully. Run the following command to get the repo –

go install -v github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx/cmd/[email protected]

After this you have to copy the tool in your path ( echo $PATH ). For me it is –

cp ~/go/bin/httpx /usr/local/bin 

Usage

Now, you are all ready to run this tool from anywhere on the terminal

To check the help menu of the tool run this command :

httpx -h

httpx with subfinder

So, to use this tool you must have a subdomain file, for this you can use subfinder :

subfinder -d freecharge.in | tee subdomains.txt

cat subdomains.txt | httpx 
httpx-demo

httpx -sc

If you want to get the status code along with subdomain then use the -sc option :

cat subdomains.txt | httpx -sc 
httpx -sc

httpx -title

If you want to get the title of the subdomain then use this option -title :

httpx -title

httpx -ct

The next option is the-ct option it displays the content type of the subdomain :

httpx -ct

httpx -td

The next option is the-td option it displays the technologies that the website is using through wappalyzer datasets : 

httpx -td

httpx -server

The next option is the-server option it displays the server that the subdomains are using  :

httpx -server

httpx -fc

The next option is -fc is used to filter response with specified status code (-fc 403,401)

httpx -fc

httpx -csv & -json

The next options are related to output like if you want an output in json or csv format you can use the options -csv -json:

cat freec.txt | httpx -csv -o live.csv

cat freec.txt | httpx -json -o live.json 
httpx -json -csv
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