Hi 馃憢, I’m Souvik Kar Mahapatra

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My Reading List 馃摎

List of books I have read and will be reading along with summaries/highlights from book.

June 26, 2022

Testing REST APIs with Jest and Supertest

Learn how to test a HTTP server and REST APIs in NodeJS using testing framework Jest and Supertest

July 2, 2022 路 3 min 路 544 words

Google XSS challenge: Level 3 aka That sinking feeling (detailed walkthrough)

Prerequisite Before getting started one should be familiar with XSS or at least have an idea about it. Here is a good article which you may give a read to understand what is XSS. Read! Also, I assume that readers are at least familiar with JavaScript. If not then I鈥檒l suggest to spend some time with JS and get comfortable with the basics. You can refer to javascript.info and MDN which are extremely helpful....

June 13, 2022 路 4 min 路 709 words

Google XSS challenge: Level 2 aka Persistence is key (detailed walkthrough)

Prerequisite Before getting started one should be familiar with XSS or at least have an idea about it. Here is a good article which you may give a read to understand what is XSS. Read! Also, I assume that readers are at least familiar with JavaScript. If not then I鈥檒l suggest to spend some time with JS and get comfortable with the basics. You can refer to javascript.info and MDN which are extremely helpful....

June 12, 2022 路 4 min 路 740 words

Google XSS challenge: Level 1 aka Hello world of XSS (detailed walkthrough)

Prerequisite Before getting started one should be familiar with XSS or at least have an idea about it. Here is a good article which you may give a read to understand what is XSS. Read! Also, I assume that readers are at least familiar with JavaScript. If not then I鈥檒l suggest to spend some time with JS and get comfortable with the basics. You can refer to javascript.info and MDN which are extremely helpful....

June 11, 2022 路 3 min 路 618 words