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Start a Temp Project with Cli

John | Last updated: Jul 04, 2017 06:08PM UTC

Hi, We are limited to use Java 32bit and since it's not very supported it's not possible to work with projects, is there a way to work with temp projects automatically? i.e. launch burp without all the fancy start up wizards? (passing a config works fine)

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jul 05, 2017 07:32AM UTC

There isn't an option for that at present. Is this just to save yourself a click at startup? Or are you trying to automate Burp? If it's the latter we can consider adding this.

Burp User | Last updated: Jul 05, 2017 01:05PM UTC

It's intended more for the manual tester so it's to save the click\wizard, if i wanted to automate which i do :) I can use the headless option and then i don't have that problem at all java -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx1g -jar burpsuite_pro_v1.7.23.jar —config-file=project.json —config-file=user.json I just think it's easy to implement and should be fairly logical to have if you already added this new project based handling in burp. Also i see the 64 bit java more as a strict enforcement rather than a suggestion so that's also something i dislike, in my case there is nothing i can do about.

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jul 05, 2017 01:08PM UTC

Hi John, Ok, we'll bear that in mind. There are significant enhancements to projects coming soon. Unfortunately, they are a 64-bit only feature. They use memory-mapped files internally, which have great performance, but restricted size on 32-bit.

Burp User | Last updated: Jul 06, 2017 08:34AM UTC

Thanks :)

Liam, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jul 06, 2017 08:40AM UTC

John, just to confirm, you want a command line option for using a temporary project to avoid clicking through the option?

Burp User | Last updated: May 29, 2019 07:45PM UTC

Hello, I'm having this same problem, I would like to start Burp with --config-file and a temporary project but not headless in case I want to go review things later, I need burp to start up on boot and be ready to go without intervention. Thanks, John

Uwe | Last updated: Aug 06, 2020 08:40AM UTC

Me too. Please add that feature. I want to have it run a VM in Backend and dont want to use the GUI. Afterwards the REST API is used. Therefore please add that feature. A real bad Workarround would be e.g. autoit, which a i want to avoid

Uthman, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Aug 06, 2020 09:58AM UTC

Thanks. We have informed our development team about the request and will update this thread if/when it is implemented.

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