The next version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (version 7), will contain a much more improved HTTP stack.   While testing, we wanted to test the new HTTP stack on as many sites as possible to make sure we didn’t introduce any bugs.

Alexa, a web information company, maintains a CSV file containing the top 1,000,000 sites on the internet.  We used this database to test the new HTTP Stack.  While testing, we also thought that it might be useful to gather all the information and come up with some statistics. After all, who does not like statistics and graphs?

From this list, 951990 records were valid and we got a response. The other records were removed either because they were invalid (some entries from the Alexa list might be invalid), or because the hostname could not be resolved, or they were unresponsive during the testing phase. Also, some other entries were removed because there were multiple domains redirecting to the same domain that was already in the database.  These results were stored in a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. In the database, we stored the complete HTTP headers and the body.  The information was split in several tables like headers, links, metas and responses, so to be queried more easily. We’ve also enabled Full-Text Search on the database. In the end, the database size was around 50Gb.

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In this article I shall highlight a few tips on how to sell effectively. One must understand that the art of salesmanship is not something you can aquire overnight and even though my methods have always worked for me, it does not mean that you should take them by the letter. In this topic, we shall be looking at obtaining an account with corporate businesses, rather than off the counter sales