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Paste Outside of Burp 1.6.21 Not Working

Ben | Last updated: Jul 23, 2015 04:06PM UTC

Copy and paste works within the Burp interface. Once you try to paste something from Burp, for example a really long url, outside of the interface it does not work. You are also not able to copy and paste from outside the application either. Is it possible to make the copy and paste function work outside of the Burp application? Copy and past function works on 1.6.19 Similar to this reported issue: https://support.portswigger.net/customer/portal/questions/12876895-vmware-copy-and-paste

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jul 24, 2015 10:07AM UTC

Burp uses the standard Java clipboard APIs for copy and paste, and these should integrate with the system clipboard. This function is working fine in our own testing, and issues appear to arise with certain specific versions of some OSs. Please can you confirm exactly what OS you are using, and also what type of Java (both vendor and version)? Then we can try to reproduce this problem and look for a solution. Thanks.

Burp User | Last updated: Aug 04, 2015 09:10AM UTC

Hey Dafydd, I have this issue as well. I'm using: java version "1.6.0_35" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.7) (6b35-1.13.7-1~deb7u1) OpenJDK Client VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode, sharing) Linux KaliIan 3.14-kali1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.14.5-1kali1 (2014-06-07) i686 GNU/Linux Have updated everything.

Burp User | Last updated: Aug 04, 2015 09:16AM UTC

Sorry, was being a bit ingenuous. Have since done a full dist upgrade and still the same problem. java version "1.6.0_35" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.7) (6b35-1.13.7-1~deb7u1) OpenJDK Client VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode, sharing) Linux KaliIan 3.18.0-kali3-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.18.6-1~kali2 (2015-03-02) i686 GNU/Linux

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Aug 10, 2015 11:12AM UTC

Thanks for the further detail. We're going to try to reproduce this problem and see what we can do to fix it.

Rose, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Feb 19, 2016 09:50AM UTC

Which version of Burp are you using? What process are you using? We've had no trouble copying over 500 lines from the decoded section.

Burp User | Last updated: Feb 24, 2017 11:59AM UTC

This seemed to work well for me: https://support.portswigger.net/customer/portal/questions/14363772-copy-paste-cut-shortcuts-ctrl-c-v-x-are-not-working-on-windows-1-

Burp User | Last updated: May 10, 2019 12:06PM UTC

I am having the same issue. I can copy-and-paste over 2800 url requests into the top section of the decoder, but I can only copy-and-paste out 500 lines from the decoded section below.

Burp User | Last updated: Oct 23, 2019 01:45AM UTC

Hi, I'm to cut and paste from Burp Suite either. It just won't allow it. I try to cut and paste from the decoder to a file and it just doesn't happen. Is there any fix for this?

Mike, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Oct 24, 2019 08:00AM UTC

Hi Becky, what version of Burp Suite are you having issues with?

Burp User | Last updated: Dec 21, 2019 10:06AM UTC

Same issue with me as well, no final solution for this issue yet

Burp User | Last updated: Dec 21, 2019 10:09AM UTC

I am using the BURP version 2.1.07 and java version of : java version "1.8.0_171"

Michelle, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Dec 23, 2019 09:39AM UTC

To help us test this out could you describe what you're trying to copy and paste, please? Is this in a specific part of Burp?

Max | Last updated: Feb 03, 2023 02:17PM UTC

For those that still care, I have found a solution after finally getting sick of using a workaround for this issue. You have to sync the primary and clipboard buffers (XA_PRIMARY and XA_CLIPBOARD). VMWare only uses the clipboard buffer. I believe when Java copies to the clipboard, it copies to the primary buffer (selection). Although this explanation doesn't make total sense, as it was possible within my Linux host to paste using the default ctrl-c shortcut. "Selections" are much more complicated than I expected under X11 and I can't be bothered to figure it out. In any case, you can either use KDE's clipboard manager and tick "sync primary and clipboard" in the settings for it, or this program: https://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel/. Not the cleanest solution, I wish we could instead change which selection buffer Java uses but that's probably up to Portswigger (please?), but at least it works.

Max | Last updated: Feb 03, 2023 02:21PM UTC

Oh and here's an explanation from Wiki about the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection And a stackoverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14467887 Which suggests Portswigger would have to implement the "ClipboardManager" spec.

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