Taras,

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Taras <ox...@oxdef.info> wrote:
> Andres,
>
> We have already found same workaround but with text log :)

Nice,

> 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.

That can be done (easily) by calling w3afCore.getCoreStatus()

> 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,
>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
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Director of Web Security at Rapid7 LLC
Founder at Bonsai Information Security
Project Leader at w3af

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