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function built in to the suite means that you can quickly retrieve an interesting
request from another component (proxy, spider, or fuzzer) for manual investigation.
It also means that the manual request tool benefits from the various shared
functions implemented within the suite, such as HTML rendering, support for
upstream proxies and authentication, and automatic updating of the Content-
Length header. Figure 20-11 shows a request being reissued manually.
Figure 20-11: A request being reissued manually using Burp Repeater
The following features are often implemented within manual request tools:
n Integration with other suite components, and the ability to refer any request
to and from other components for further investigation
n A history of all requests and responses, keeping a full record of all manual
requests for further review, and enabling a previously modified request
to be retrieved for further analysis