This isn't a blog post about some great dependency injection framework I'm fond of. Rather,
it's about using the super() method to change the behaviour of our classes in
different contexts. If you're familiar with how super works in single inheritance
languages, this might sound a bit mad - in my …
Roughly a year ago, I worked on a project to simplify the numerous Jenkins build configurations we had to maintain using Jenkins Pipelines , which greatly improved our overall build quality and ease of introducing new builds/projects. However, one thing that repeatedly popped up was our reliance on cURL for …
Today I flipped my corporate laptop over to Linux. Since we use Cisco's AnyConnect client, which can be a bit... finicky in some environments, I decided to set up my work VPN connection using vpner and route internal traffic through that docker container. However, this led to a problem: either …
Network traffic captures are a wonderful thing. However, they can be an absolute chore to read and Wireshark isn't the most newbie-friendly tool in the world. Thankfully, we have a fantastic Python module named Scapy to make our lives a little easier.
To begin, let's grab a bit of traffic …
As far as testing goes, finding a bug that lets me run arbitrary commands on a remote machine is easily one of my favourite things, thankfully because it's pretty rare in the products I work with. However, sometimes it's not always easy or convenient to know when you encounter these …
The Python Requests library uses its own CA file by default, or will use the certifi package's certificate bundle if installed. Unfortunately my employer performs SSL interception that re-signs the certificates using their own intermediates, causing errors for external URLs like so:
requests.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed …A little while ago I found the OWASP Juice Shop, and thoroughly enjoyed stumbling my way through its various challenges. The Juice Shop page itself can explain what it's about better than I need to here, but anybody looking for a stepping stone into the strange and mystical world of …
I work as a software tester, so the majority of the code I write is designed to test other people's applications. I recently decided to check out the Hypothesis library for property-based unit testing out of curiosity. However, my code is often little more than a wrapper around the Requests …