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Active Scanner Extension Incrementing Requests

Matt | Last updated: Jan 09, 2017 06:43PM UTC

I have a custom active scanner extension which makes a finite number of requests via callbacks.makeHttpRequest(). This does not appear to increment the current active scan with the correct number of requests being made and stalls the scan status % given it does an 'unknown' number of requests. How does one tie into this to a) present the number of requests the plugin will make and b) increment this count.

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jan 10, 2017 08:51AM UTC

There isn't currently a way to do this, sorry. When you make a request via callbacks.makeHttpRequest(), Burp doesn't know that this is part of scanning a particular item, and there isn't any other way to increment that counter. In future, we might update the Scanner-related APIs to allow you to issue a request tied to the relevant scan item / insertion point.

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