Request / response highlight option

[psiinon]

It would be great to have an option to highlight one (or more?) strings in the Request / Response dialog. We could use this for alert 'evidence' and for search results. The ZAP desktop uses highlighting in this way ;)

[psiinon]

@jaywon - sent you a collaboration invite : looks like I cant assign issues to you until you accept that

[jaywon]

@psiinon accepted!

[thc202]

Assigned :)

[psiinon]

@jaywon have you made any progress on this?

Having looked at it I think its non trivial :/ But we still really want this functionality. Currently the requests and responses are text areas, which cant typically have highlighting applied to. There are some options:

• Faking the textarea, as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12831101/format-text-in-a-textarea - but I'm worried that will cause HTML responses to be rendered in the div rather than being shown
• Some clever JS and CSS as per https://codersblock.com/blog/highlight-text-inside-a-textarea/ - this looks promising but complicated any could be hard to maintain
• Using a div instead of a textarea when highlighting, but we'd then need to provide an 'Edit' button or similar to switch 'mode' which might not be so intuative

Thoughts anyone?

[dscrobonia]

Some clever JS and CSS as per https://codersblock.com/blog/highlight-text-inside-a-textarea/ - this looks promising but complicated any could be hard to maintain

I just briefly scrolled over this. I think this is the way to go. We can abstract it out to a new component, HighlightableTextArea or something. Shouldn't be an issue with maintenance as long as we make the component robust for this use case.