Burp's new crawler
Summary: PortSwigger is replacing Burp Suite's Spider tool with a new crawler that navigates applications the way a browser user does, by clicking links and submitting input, and maps content as a directed graph rather than a queue of pending requests. The crawler identifies locations by their contents instead of their URLs, which lets it handle applications that put CSRF tokens or cache-busters in URL paths and applications that reach different locations through the same URL.
Why it matters: The old Spider assumed stable URLs, simple cookie sessions, deterministic responses and no server-side state - assumptions most applications today no longer meet, so scans built on it could miss content that modern sites only expose through interaction.
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