A tool for stripping away unnecessary headers, query parameters, and post body parameters from an HTTP request.
Download one of the release jars and use it:
java -jar strip-request.jar -h
strip-request is simple to use with raw HTTP requests that are usually acquired
from the browser or through a tool such as Burp repeater. A normal workflow, for
example, when using Repeater would be right-click a request in Repeater and select,
"Copy to File...". Once the request is saved, strip the request using the following
command:
java -jar strip-request.jar -i request.txt
The following request to example.com
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
will produce the following output
Original request:
-----------------
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Base response:
-----------------
{:headers
{"Vary" "Accept-Encoding",
"X-Cache" "HIT",
"Last-Modified" "Fri, 09 Aug 2013 235435 GMT",
"Date" "Sat, 30 Jun 2018 193225 GMT",
"Accept-Ranges" "bytes",
"Cache-Control" "max-age=604800",
"Content-Length" "606",
"Server" "ECS (sjc/4E38)",
"Content-Type" "text/html",
"Content-Encoding" "gzip",
"Etag" "\"1541025663+gzip\"",
"Expires" "Sat, 07 Jul 2018 193225 GMT"},
:content-length 606,
:status-code 200,
:status-msg "OK"}
Striped request:
-----------------
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: example.com
Stripped response:
-----------------
{:headers
{"Vary" "Accept-Encoding",
"X-Cache" "HIT",
"Last-Modified" "Fri, 09 Aug 2013 235435 GMT",
"Date" "Sat, 30 Jun 2018 193225 GMT",
"Accept-Ranges" "bytes",
"Cache-Control" "max-age=604800",
"Content-Length" "606",
"Server" "ECS (sjc/4E39)",
"Content-Type" "text/html",
"Content-Encoding" "gzip",
"Etag" "\"1541025663+gzip\"",
"Expires" "Sat, 07 Jul 2018 193225 GMT"},
:content-length 606,
:status-code 200,
:status-msg "OK"}
strip-request: a command line tool for stripping away unnecessary headers, query parameters, and cookies from requests.
Usage: strip-request [options]
Options:
-u, --http Make the request over HTTP (defaults to TLS).
-t, --host HOST 127.0.0.1 Host to make the request to
-p, --port PORT 443 Port number to connect to.
-r, --req FILE File containing an HTTP request.
-v Verbose mode; more v's -> more verbose.
-h, --help