TRACK Method

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TRACK is an HTTP verb that tells the server to return the full request to the client . It is similar to the TRACE method . The HTTP TRACK method is normally used to return the full HTTP request back to the requesting client for proxy -debugging purposes. An attacker can create a webpage using XMLHTTP, ActiveX, XMLDOM to cause a client issue a TRACK request and capture the client’s cookies ; this effectively results ina Cross-Site Scripting attack (XSS) 1.

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  1. Microsoft. “TRACK”. Available at: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/iis-support-blog/http-track-and-trace-verbs/784482 . (Accessed: [2025-05-11 Sun 07:21]). ↩︎

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