Andres,

We have already found same workaround but with text log :)
In the future we will get on this topic if we will need e.g. to view 
current status of scan in percent. I mean that in the future we will 
need deeper process handling.

30.01.2012 21:47, Andres Riancho пишет:
> Taras,
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Taras<ox...@oxdef.info>  wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> In our webui we run w3af_console with subprocess.Popen().
>> There is frequent task to stop current scan and save at least partly
>> results of it. We use HTML output plugin for it which buffers results to
>> make nice HTML at the end. The problem is how to correctly stop such
>> scan. Currently we send KILL signal to this process but we lose report
>> in this case :( We also tried to send SIGINT but it no always works!
>> Some time report is completed but sometimes is not. Especially when w3af
>> run more then one mode, e.g. discovery then audit. So what we can do in
>> this case? Implement more usable signal handling in w3af. Currently only
>> SIGINT is catched because of catching Ctrl-C in w3af_console
>
>      Maybe we could achieve the same goal in a completely different
> way? Just thinking out loud but... what about writing w3af's results /
> logs / findings to some kind of "on-disk JSON array" as soon as they
> are found and have an HTML/JS that will have the format the content
> and read the "JSON array"? That way we could write everything to disk
> as soon it is found and don't care about crashes, signals, etc.
>
> Regards,
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Taras
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