InitRacer

Setup

The following install instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04.1.

Dependencies

1. Install Google Chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome

2. Install other dependencies by issuing the following commands:

   curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
   sudo apt-get install -y git nodejs python-pip python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev g++
   sudo npm install -g http-server [email protected]
   sudo webdriver-manager update
   pip install mitmproxy==0.17
   

3. Install mitmproxy certificate

   A. Start mitmproxy by issuing: mitmdump

   B. Open http://mitm.it/ in Google Chrome by issuing:

   google-chrome-stable http://mitm.it/ --proxy-server="127.0.0.1:8080"
   

   C. Download the mitmproxy certificate for Ubuntu by clicking on "Other"

   D. Install the mitmproxy certificate: Open chrome://settings/certificates in Google Chrome, click on "Authorities", and import the certificiate mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem. In addition, issue the following commands.

   sudo cp ~/Downloads/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/mitmproxy-ca-cert.crt
   sudo update-ca-certificates
   

   Test that the mitmproxy certificate is installed correctly, by repeating steps (A) and (B), and opening https://github.com/cs-au-dk/initracer in the browser.

InitRacer

Issue the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/cs-au-dk/initracer.git
cd initracer
npm install

Usage

The following command runs InitRacer on http://localhost:8080/test/access-before-definition/dropdown/index.html, and saves the result in out/example/:

http-server # for serving the test/ directory
./initracer.js --site example --url http://localhost:8080/test/access-before-definition/dropdown/index.html --validate

The report generated by InitRacer can be found at http://localhost:8080/report/.

Running all tests: Issue the command ./run-tests.sh and open http://localhost:8080/report/.

Running all experiments:

Download and extract the recordings of the websites of the 100 largest companies from the Fortune 500 list by issuing the following commands:

wget http://initracer.casadev.cs.au.dk/recordings.zip
unzip recordings.zip

Then issue the command ./run-experiments.sh and open http://localhost:8080/report/.