Hi Christopher,
I'm fairly new to w3af development as well, the developers guide which may
help you a bit can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/wiki/developers-guide
Other than that, I just picked it up by looking at the current plugins and
the core and seeing how it all fits together. I found the code to be very
well organized and pretty easy to understand the flow. I think you just
need to spend some time tracing through the code and seeing how it all fits
together.
If you have any specific questions or concerns, I'd be happy to try and
answer. I think you have a good start using an existing plugin as a base,
what exactly is happening with your plugin that is unexpected?
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Cuevas,Christopher A
<airw...@mail.ufl.edu>wrote:
> I'm new to python development, but would like to extend the SSN grep
> plugin or write a new SSN plugin that would allow w3af to parse PDFs and
> xls spreadsheets for SSNs.
>
> where is the best place to find documentation for developing for w3af?
> (specifically how to write a plugin)
>
> I've attempted to clone the ssn grep plugin and modify the code. Thus far
> I've been able to get my modified plugin to load in w3af, but it is not
> functioning as I had hoped. I expect it is a lack of my understanding as
> to how to correctly code a plugin. I have some example python code working
> that will parse both PDFs and XLS spreadsheets on the filesystem looking
> for SSNs, but would like to turn this into a w3af plugin.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help pointing me in the right direction
>
> - Chris
>
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