httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit allow to run multiple probers using retryablehttp library, it is designed to maintain the result reliability with increased threads.

Resources

• Resources
• Features
• Usage
• Installation Instructions
  • From Binary
  • From Source
  • From Github
• Running httpX to probe 7614 hosts
  • Running httpx with stdin
  • Running httpx with file input
  • Running httpx with CIDR input
  • Using httpX with subfinder/chaos and any other similar tool.
  • Running httpX with json output
  • Todo
• Thanks

Features

• Simple and modular code base making it easy to contribute.
• Fast And fully configurable flags to probe mutiple elements.
• Supports vhost, urls, ports, title, content-length, status-code, response-body probbing.
• Smart auto fallback from https to http as default.
• Supports hosts, URLs and CIDR as input.
• Handles edge cases doing retries, backoffs etc for handling WAFs.

Usage

httpx -h

This will display help for the tool. Here are all the switches it supports.

Flag	Description	Example
-H	Custom Header input	httpx -H 'x-bug-bounty: hacker'
-follow-redirects	Follow URL redirects (default false)	httpx -follow-redirects
-follow-host-redirects	Follow URL redirects only when staying on the same host (default false)	httpx -follow-host-redirects
-http-proxy	URL of the proxy server	httpx -http-proxy hxxp://proxy-host:80
-l	File containing host/urls to process	httpx -l hosts.txt
-l	File containing CIDR to process	httpx -l cidr.txt
-no-color	Disable colors in the output.	httpx -no-color
-o	File to save output result (optional)	httpx -o output.txt
-json	Prints all the probes in JSON format (default false)	httpx -json
-vhost	Probes to detect vhost from list of subdomains	httpx -vhost
-threads	Number of threads (default 50)	httpx - threads 100
-ports	Ports ranges to probe (nmap syntax: eg 1,2-10,11)	httpx -ports 80,443,100-200
-title	Prints title of page if available	httpx -title
-content-length	Prints content length in the output	httpx -content-length
-status-code	Prints status code in the output	httpx -status-code
-web-server	Prints running web sever if available	httpx -web-server
-store-response	Store response as domain.txt	httpx -store-response
-store-response-dir	Directory to store response (default current path)	httpx -store-response-dir output
-retries	Number of retries	httpx -retries
-silent	Prints only results in the output	httpx -silent
-timeout	Timeout in seconds (default 5)	httpx -timeout 10
-verbose	Verbose Mode	httpx -verbose
-version	Prints current version of the httpx	httpx -version
-x	Request Method (default 'GET')	httpx -x HEAD
-response-in-json	Include response in stdout (only works with -json)	httpx -response-in-json
-websocket	Prints if a websocket is exposed	httpx -websocket

Installation Instructions

From Binary

The installation is easy. You can download the pre-built binaries for your platform from the Releases page. Extract them using tar, move it to your $PATHand you're ready to go.

> tar -xvf httpx-linux-amd64.tar
> mv httpx-linux-amd64 /usr/bin/httpx
> httpx -h

From Source

httpx requires go1.13+ to install successfully. Run the following command to get the repo -

> GO111MODULE=on go get -u -v github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx/cmd/httpx

From Github

git clone https://github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx.git
cd httpx/cmd/httpx
go build .
mv httpx /usr/local/bin/
httpx -h

In order to update the tool, you can use -u flag with go get command.

Running httpX to probe 7614 hosts

> chaos -d uber.com -count -silent 

7614

> time chaos -d uber.com -silent | httpx -status-code -content-length -title -store-response -threads 100 -json | wc 

    __    __  __       _  __
   / /_  / /_/ /_____ | |/ /
  / __ \/ __/ __/ __ \|   / 
 / / / / /_/ /_/ /_/ /   |  
/_/ /_/\__/\__/ .___/_/|_|  
             /_/            

		projectdiscovery.io

[WRN] Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
[WRN] Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.

210

real	0m36.952s
user	0m7.976s
sys	0m7.884s

Running httpx with stdin

This will run the tool against all the hosts in hosts.txt and returns the matched results.

> cat hosts.txt | httpx 

    __    __  __       _  __
   / /_  / /_/ /_____ | |/ /
  / __ \/ __/ __/ __ \|   / 
 / / / / /_/ /_/ /_/ /   |  
/_/ /_/\__/\__/ .___/_/|_|  
             /_/            

		projectdiscovery.io

[WRN] Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
[WRN] Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.
https://mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com
https://docs.hackerone.com
https://www.hackerone.com
https://resources.hackerone.com
https://api.hackerone.com
https://support.hackerone.com

Running httpx with file input

This will run the tool against all the hosts in hosts.txt and returns the matched results.

> httpx -l hosts.txt

    __    __  __       _  __
   / /_  / /_/ /_____ | |/ /
  / __ \/ __/ __/ __ \|   / 
 / / / / /_/ /_/ /_/ /   |  
/_/ /_/\__/\__/ .___/_/|_|  
             /_/            

		projectdiscovery.io

[WRN] Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
[WRN] Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.
https://docs.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com
https://mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com
https://www.hackerone.com
https://resources.hackerone.com
https://api.hackerone.com
https://support.hackerone.com

Running httpx with CIDR input

> echo 173.0.84.0/24 | httpx 

    __    __  __       _  __
   / /_  / /_/ /_____ | |/ /
  / __ \/ __/ __/ __ \|   / 
 / / / / /_/ /_/ /_/ /   |  
/_/ /_/\__/\__/ .___/_/|_|  
             /_/            

		projectdiscovery.io

[WRN] Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
[WRN] Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.
https://173.0.84.29
https://173.0.84.43
https://173.0.84.31
https://173.0.84.44
https://173.0.84.12
https://173.0.84.4
https://173.0.84.36
https://173.0.84.45
https://173.0.84.14
https://173.0.84.25
https://173.0.84.46
https://173.0.84.24
https://173.0.84.32
https://173.0.84.9
https://173.0.84.13
https://173.0.84.6
https://173.0.84.16
https://173.0.84.34

Using httpX with subfinder/chaos and any other similar tool.

> subfinder -d hackerone.com -silent | httpx -title -content-length -status-code


    __    __  __       _  __
   / /_  / /_/ /_____ | |/ /
  / __ \/ __/ __/ __ \|   / 
 / / / / /_/ /_/ /_/ /   |  
/_/ /_/\__/\__/ .___/_/|_|  
             /_/            

		projectdiscovery.io

[WRN] Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
[WRN] Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.
https://mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com [404] [9339] [Page not found · GitHub Pages]
https://mta-sts.hackerone.com [404] [9339] [Page not found · GitHub Pages]
https://mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com [404] [9339] [Page not found · GitHub Pages]
https://docs.hackerone.com [200] [65444] [HackerOne Platform Documentation]
https://www.hackerone.com [200] [54166] [Bug Bounty - Hacker Powered Security Testing | HackerOne]
https://support.hackerone.com [301] [489] []
https://api.hackerone.com [200] [7791] [HackerOne API]
https://hackerone.com [301] [92] []
https://resources.hackerone.com [301] [0] []

Running httpX with json output

> chaos -d hackerone.com -silent | httpx -json

    __    __  __       _  __
   / /_  / /_/ /_____ | |/ /
  / __ \/ __/ __/ __ \|   / 
 / / / / /_/ /_/ /_/ /   |  
/_/ /_/\__/\__/ .___/_/|_|  
             /_/            

		projectdiscovery.io

[WRN] Use with caution. You are responsible for your actions
[WRN] Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage.

{"url":"https://mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com","content-length":9339,"status-code":404,"title":"Page not found · GitHub Pages","vhost":false,"webserver":"GitHub.com"}
{"url":"https://mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com","content-length":9339,"status-code":404,"title":"Page not found · GitHub Pages","vhost":false,"webserver":"GitHub.com"}
{"url":"https://mta-sts.hackerone.com","content-length":9339,"status-code":404,"title":"Page not found · GitHub Pages","vhost":false,"webserver":"GitHub.com"}
{"url":"https://docs.hackerone.com","content-length":65781,"status-code":200,"title":"HackerOne Platform Documentation","vhost":false,"webserver":"GitHub.com"}
{"url":"https://api.hackerone.com","content-length":7791,"status-code":200,"title":"HackerOne API","vhost":false,"webserver":"cloudflare"}
{"url":"https://support.hackerone.com","content-length":98,"status-code":301,"title":"","vhost":false,"webserver":"cloudflare"}
{"url":"https://resources.hackerone.com","content-length":0,"status-code":301,"title":"","vhost":false,"webserver":""}
{"url":"https://www.hackerone.com","content-length":54136,"status-code":200,"title":"Bug Bounty - Hacker Powered Security Testing | HackerOne","vhost":false,"webserver":"cloudflare"}

You can simply use jq to filter out the json results as per your interest.

Todo

• Adding support to probe http smuggling

Thanks

httpX is made with 🖤 by the projectdiscovery team. Community contributions have made the project what it is. See the Thanks.md file for more details. Do also check out these similar awesome projects that may fit in your workflow:

Probing feature is inspired by @tomnomnom/httprobe work ❤️