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Global UI indicator that Live Active Scanning is enabled

Richard | Last updated: Jul 19, 2016 06:43PM UTC

There have been times that I've opened a project file, or returned to a project and forgot Live Active Scanning is enabled. Since almost every action in burp is very explicit, requiring user interaction. When live active scanning is enabled, the behavior of the application is fundamentally different, and is much more dangerous if the user is not careful. I think this warrants a global UI warning icon or indicator, that live active scanning is enabled or disabled.

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jul 22, 2016 08:45AM UTC

Thanks for this. We agree there is a need for a panel somewhere showing the global status of some key items (such as whether the Spider is running, the Collaborator can be polled, the Scanner is paused, etc.). We do plan to provide this feature at some point. There are actually already a couple of features to help protect you from mistakes: 1. When you reopen a project or restore a state file with live active scanning enabled, the alerts tab flashes to warn you about this. 2. By default, when you reopen any project or restore any state file, both the Spider and Scanner tools are paused to avoid you unwittingly resuming any automated actions.

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