-allows to craft and/or relay intercepted requests to a target at will -take a request captured in proxy, edit it, and send the same request repeatedly six main sections
- requests: list of repeater requests
- controls: send a request, cancel a hanging request, go forwards/backwards in request history
- response: response to request
- Inspector: break requests apart to analyze and edit them
- Target: IP address or domain to which we are sending requests
four display options for response
- pretty: default option, takes raw response and beautify - easier readability
- raw: raw response from server
- Hex: byte view
- Render: renders as it would appear in the browser
option to “show non-printable characters”
Inspector: breakdown of requests and responses
- Request Attributes: edit parts of the request that deal with location, method and protocol
- Query Parameters: refer to data being sent to the server in the url
- Body Parameters: for post requests modify parameters before resending
- Request Cookies: modifiable list of cookies
- Request Headers: view, access, and modify and headers being sent with our request
- Response Headers: shows the headers the server sent back in response to our request
Internal server error: requested a negative number