Fantastic, thanks! I'll be happy to test it whenever the fix is done.

Mac

-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Andalia [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:21 PM
To: Mac Collins
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [W3af-users] Bad w3af / IPS interaction

Hey Mac,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mac Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>

<--snip-->

> 3. w3af  throws a "Too many retries" error when the page is not returned.

That's one of our known top3 bugs and we're planning to work on it during the 
next week. I'll let you know when the fix is done so you can help us to 
validate it by testing it in your environment.

>
> Is there any way to get around this? I have tried setting maxRetrys to 
> 0 and commenting out the code that throws the "Too many retries" error 
> in w3afCore.py, and the program still dies in both cases, I think 
> because there are redundant checks to see if things are stalled. When 
> the error is commented out a line in xUrllib.py throws a 
> KeyboardInterrupt from a method called _sleepIfPausedDieIfStopped.
>
>
>
> I am not developing w3af and I do not know Python well so I don't 
> fully understand how most of the code works. Any help would be much 
> appreciated!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mac
>

Thanks!

Javier

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