This article needs to be updated.(October 2023) |
Developer(s) | The Open Web Application Security Project |
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Written in | Java |
License | GPLv2 |
Website | WebScarab |
WebScarab is a web security application testing tool. It serves as a proxy that intercepts and allows people to alter web browser web requests (both HTTP and HTTPS) and web server replies. WebScarab also may record traffic for further review. [1]
WebScarab is an open source tool developed by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and was implemented in Java so it could run across multiple operating systems. [2]
In 2013 official development of WebScarab slowed, and it appears that OWASP's Zed Attack Proxy ("ZAP") Project (another Java-based, open source proxy tool but with more features and active development) is WebScarab's official successor, [3] [4] although ZAP itself was forked from the Paros Proxy, not WebScarab. [5]