Re: [W3af-users] incredibly slow crawling and auditing

[Andres R. <and...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Vojtěch Polášek <kr...@gm...> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am testing a web application with lots of Javascript with W3AF. I use
> spider_man to gather starting information and I use almost all audit
> plugins but no other crawling plugins.
> I browsed just through two pages and submitted one form with spider_man
> to get some starting data.
> Unfortunatelly W3AF scans the application for terribly long time. It
> goes from for example 300 requests per minute to 10 per minute and still
> going lower.
> When I press enter during scanning it is showing still the same crawling
> and auditing url, just the number of requests is dropping.
> I can post you some more information about used plugins if you need it.
> Why is this happening?

I've seen this issue too, not sure why it happens, might be related
with [0] but I'm unsure.

[0] https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues/12505

> Thanks and best regards,
> Vojta
>
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