Tiago,

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Tiago Vieira <tiago.vie...@novabase.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Tiago, I'm doing a master thesis in web security and I'm using
> w3af to perform some tests.
>
> My question is related with the scan, when we select a URL to attack, does
> the application performs posts on that URL?

Most likely not, it depends on the plugins you enabled.

If you enabled the web_spider plugin it will perform a GET to the URL,
retrieve the forms, and perform POST on those forms.

> I've tried manual requests and fuzzing but this does not allow simple
> parametrization for multiple requests and I would prefer using the available
> plugins.
>
> One of the applications I'm testing has several assync requests and I wanted
> to test each one of them with the available plugins.

You may want to read:
http://docs.w3af.org/en/latest/advanced-use-cases.html

> Thank you
> Best regards
>
>
>
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