Steve,

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Steve Pinkham <steve.pink...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 05:33 PM, Viktor Gazdag wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> I forgot to send to the list. If you stop the webserver when you are
>> scanning, it will crash. I tested it. :)
>>
>> Best regards
>> woodspeed
>
> That's actually the expected behaviour, annoying but not quite the same
> as this bug.. Though it might be related.

Yes, that's the expected behavior => fail if the remote webserver is
*really* off.
In this case, we're moving from an exception to an error message.

> This happens when the webserver is still normally servicing connections.
> It happens on localhost as well as on servers across the world, at
> points when other software is having no problem accessing the site.

You're right, this is actually the bug:
    - w3af crashes saying it can't access remote webserver
    - any browser can really access the webserver

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