HTTPX : A Fast And Multi-Purpose HTTP Toolkit

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

  • Simple and modular code base making it easy to contribute.
  • Fast And fully configurable flags to probe mutiple 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.

Supported Probes

ProbesDefault checkProbesDefault check
URLtrueIPtrue
TitletrueCNAMEtrue
Status CodetrueRaw HTTPfalse
Content LengthtrueHTTP2false
TLS CertificatetrueHTTP 1.1 Pipelinefalse
CSP HeadertrueVirtual hostfalse
Location HeadertrueCDNfalse
Web ServertruePathfalse
Web SockettruePortsfalse
Response TimetrueRequest methodfalse

Installation Instructions

httpx requires go1.14+ to install successfully. Run the following command to get the repo –

GO111MODULE=on go get -v github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx/cmd/httpx

Usage

httpx -h

This will display help for the tool. Here are all the switches it supports.

 httpx help menu 

Running httpX

Running httpx with stdin

This will run the tool against all the hosts and subdomains in hosts.txt and returns URLs running HTTP webserver.

cat hosts.txt | httpx
_ _ _ _ / / / // /_ | |/ /
/ _ \/ / / _ | /
/ / / / // // // / | // //_/__/ .
//|| v1.0
/_/
projectdiscovery.io
[WRN] Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
[WRN] Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.
https://mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com
https://docs.hackerone.com
https://www.hackerone.com
https://resources.hackerone.com
https://api.hackerone.com
https://support.hackerone.com

Running httpx with file input

This will run the tool against all the hosts and subdomains in hosts.txt and returns URLs running HTTP webserver.

httpx -l hosts.txt -silent
https://docs.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com
https://www.hackerone.com
https://resources.hackerone.com
https://api.hackerone.com
https://support.hackerone.com

Running httpx with CIDR input

echo 173.0.84.0/24 | httpx -silent
https://173.0.84.29
https://173.0.84.43
https://173.0.84.31
https://173.0.84.44
https://173.0.84.12
https://173.0.84.4
https://173.0.84.36
https://173.0.84.45
https://173.0.84.14
https://173.0.84.25
https://173.0.84.46
https://173.0.84.24
https://173.0.84.32
https://173.0.84.9
https://173.0.84.13
https://173.0.84.6
https://173.0.84.16
https://173.0.84.34

Running httpx with subfinder

subfinder -d hackerone.com | httpx -title -tech-detect -status-code -title -follow-redirects
_ _ _ _ / / / // /_ | |/ /
/ _ \/ / / _ | /
/ / / / // // // / | // //_/__/ .
//||
/_/ v1.0.6
projectdiscovery.io
Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.
https://mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com [404] [Page not found · GitHub Pages] [Varnish,GitHub Pages,Ruby on Rails]
https://mta-sts.hackerone.com [404] [Page not found · GitHub Pages] [Varnish,GitHub Pages,Ruby on Rails]
https://mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com [404] [Page not found · GitHub Pages] [GitHub Pages,Ruby on Rails,Varnish]
https://docs.hackerone.com [200] [HackerOne Platform Documentation] [Ruby on Rails,jsDelivr,Gatsby,React,webpack,Varnish,GitHub Pages]
https://support.hackerone.com [301,302,301,200] [HackerOne] [Cloudflare,Ruby on Rails,Ruby]
https://resources.hackerone.com [301,301,404] [Sorry, no Folders found.]

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