Highlighter And Extractor
Summary: HaE is a Burp Suite extension, authored by gh0stkey and listed at version 5.3.1, that uses multi-engine customized regular expressions to tag and extract information from HTTP messages, including WebSocket traffic. It loads an offline rule database from its Jar package on first use, and rules must wrap the extracted expression in parentheses, such as (rememberMe=delete) for a Shiro response.
Why it matters: The extension's stated purpose is cutting testing time as captured HTTP traffic grows under front-end and back-end separation, so the practical stake is whether your testers can find the meaningful messages in a volume of traffic that keeps rising.
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