Guys,
Just wanted to let you know that since a couple of weeks, w3af now
uses objects to represent URLs. This doesn't sound like a big deal,
but it actually is. In the past, we stored URLs in strings, and each
time we needed something from the URL we performed something like
this:
domain = urlParser.getDomain( url )
path = urlParser.getPath( url )
Which internally parsed the URL twice (it's actually a rather
expensive procedure to be doing thousands of times for each URL). With
the new object, it's now possible to do this:
domain = url.getDomain()
path = url.getPath()
Which will query those values from attributes in the url_object,
and the URL will only be parsed when the object is created. On top of
that, we've worked some magic with @decorators and @staticmethods in
order to avoid multiple urlunparse calls to the same object. I think
you'll enjoy the code :)
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/browser/trunk/core/data/parsers/urlParser.py
If you have any comments, thoughts, improvements, etc. Please let me know!
Regards,
--
Andrés Riancho
Director of Web Security at Rapid7 LLC
Founder at Bonsai Information Security
Project Leader at w3af
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