Sasha,
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Alexander Berezhnoy
<alexander.berezh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andres!
>
> 2009/1/21 Andres Riancho <andres.rian...@gmail.com>:
>> List,
>>
>> I've created a task in the TODO list for v1.0 some time ago, that
>> basically says [0]:
>>
>> """I should separate discovery plugins into two different types:
>>
>> - The ones that find new URLs
>> - The ones that find things about the site"""
>>
>> A clear example of a plugin that finds new URLs is the webSpider,
>> and a clear example of a plugin that "finds things about the site" is
>> the hmap plugin, which fingerprints the remote webserver. I've been
>> thinking, and I'm pretty sure that w3af is going to have a plugin
>> family called "crawl" for the plugins that "look like webSpider",
>> but... I'm not sure how to call the other plugin family. Anybody has
>> ideas? Please share =)
>
> Would not be reasonable then, to join the "grep" plugins with the
> second new type ("The ones that find things about the site")
No, because grep is passive and this new type is completely active.
They do the work in different ways.
> I'm agree with Steve that finding URL's and crawling them could be an
> other task for the split.
What about what I said about plugins that are run more than once, with
different input, and always return the same result?
> I think, we need to publish a complete plugin list and discuss their
> classification. Probably, the same plugin could be dedicated to the
> several groups.
I disagree with the fact of having a plugin in more than one category.
It would be a mess for the final user, and a mess in the core
implementation.
> Sasha.
>
> ///////
>
>>
>> [0]
>> https://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=147178&group_id=170274&group_project_id=48542
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Andres Riancho
>> http://w3af.sourceforge.net/
>> Web Application Attack and Audit Framework
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