Scan desktop app with Proxifier and ZAP

[Chella]

Hello All,

I am testing a desktop application and use Proxifier tool to redirect connections when the desktop app is connecting to the server. I am trying to capture the requests with ZAP but no luck.

However, I was able to capture the requests from browser using Proxifier and ZAP but not with the desktop app. Do I need to configure other aside from Local Proxy address and port in ZAP? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Chella

[Simon Bennetts]

Hi Cella,

Does the desktop app use web based protocols like HTTP(S)? If not then you wont be able to use ZAP.

If it does then you will need to configure the app to proxy via ZAP. How you do that will depend on your app.

If your app is communicating to the server but you are not seeing the traffic in ZAP then you have not successfully set up proxying in your app.

Cheers,

Simon

[Chella]

Thanks for the quick reply Simon.

Yes the desktop app use HTTP. I configured the proxifier tool to redirect connections to port 8080 and ZAP to listen on port 8080. Yes since I'm not seeing the traffic in ZAP then there are still some configurations needed to do maybe with the proxifier tool that I'm using. I'm still stuck with this problem :(

Thanks for the help.