seemanta,

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Andres Riancho
<andres.rian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> seemanta,
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, seemanta patnaik
> <seemantapatn...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>> Hello Everybody,
>>
>> I have a requirement to crawl a website from my base existing
>> software(program) and to push the output into an xml file. Please let me
>> know if there is any API on w3af which can be called from my base program
>> for crawling a website.
>
> Nop,
>
>> Alternatively I wrote the following batch script & called it from my base
>> program (platform- w3af version 1.0-rc2 on Windows XP Professional OS):-
>>
>> plugins
>> discovery webSpider
>> output console, textFile, xmlFile
>> output config console
>> set verbose True
>> back
>> output config textFile
>> set verbose True
>> set fileName result2.txt
>> back
>> output config xmlFile
>> set fileName result2.xml
>> back
>> back
>> target
>> set target <URL>
>> back
>> start
>>
>> On executing the above w3af script it was observed that both textFile
>> (result2.txt) & xmlFile (result2.xml) are created. However result2.xml
>> contains no data while textFile contains the required output. I have already
>> tried various options but still facing the same problem.
>
> Are you waiting until the end of the w3af process? I think that the
> xml file is created in memory, and then written all at the end.
>
>>
>>
>> Please let me if i am missing something in the script.
>
> I don't think so,

Ahh, also... the xml only records vulnerabilities, (as far as I can
tell from a small run). If you want it to record the found URLs, you
have to modify the plugin code. Also an option, without modifying the
code but not in XML is to enable the "exportFuzzableRequests" in
"misc-settings".

>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Seemanta
>>
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