AJAX Spider tab

The AJAX Spider tab shows you the set of unique URIs found by AJAX Spider.

For each request you can see:

The request index - each request is numbered, starting at 1
The request timestamp
The HTML method, e.g. GET or POST
The URL requested
The HTTP response status code
A short summary of what the HTTP response code means
The length of time the whole request took
The size of the response header
The size of the response body
Any Alerts on the request
Any Notes you have added to request
Any Tags you have added to request

Selecting a requests will display it in the Request tab and Response tab above.

Right click menu

Right clicking on a node will bring up a menu which will allow you to:

Attack

The Attack menu has the following submenus:

Active Scan Site

This will initiate an Active Scan of the whole of the site containing the selected node.
The Active Scan tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Active Scan Node

This will initiate an Active Scan of just the node selected.
The Active Scan tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Spider Site

This will initiate a spider of the whole of the site containing the selected node.
The Spider tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Forced Browse Site

This will initiate a forced browse of the whole of the site containing the selected node.
The Forced Browse tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Forced Browse Directory

This will initiate a forced browse on the selected directory.
The Forced Browse tab will be displayed and will show the progress of the scan.

Forced Browse Directory (and children)

This will initiate a forced browse on the selected directory and all children found.
The Forced Browse tab will be displayed and will show the progress of the scan.

Exclude from

This menu has the following submenus:

Proxy

This will exclude the selected nodes from the proxy. They will still be proxied via ZAP but will not be shown in any of the tabs.
This can be used to ignore URLs that you know are not relevant to the system you are currently testing.
The nodes can be included again via the Session Properties dialog

Scanner

This will prevent the selected nodes from being actively scanned.
The nodes can be included again via the Session Properties dialog

Spider

This will prevent the selected nodes from being spidered.
The nodes can be included again via the Session Properties dialog

Run application

This menu allows you to invoke applications that you have configured via the Options Applications screen which is also accessible via the ‘Configure applications…’ submenu.

Manage Tags…

This will bring up the Manage Tags dialog which allows you to change the tags associated with the request.

Note…

This will bring up the Add Note dialog which allows you to record notes related to the request.

Break…

This will bring up the Add Break Point dialog which allows you to set a break point on that URL.

Alerts for this node

If the URL selected has alerts associated with it then they will be listed under this menu.
Selecting one of the alerts will cause it to be displayed.

Resend…

This will bring up the Resend dialog which allows you to resend the request after making any changes to it that you want to.

New Alert…

This will bring up the Add Alert dialog which allows you to manually record a new Alert against this request.

Open URL in Browser

This will open the URL of the selected node in your default browser.

See also

AJAX Spider for an overview of the AJAX Spider
Options AJAX Spider screen for an overview of the AJAX Spider Options
AJAX Spider dialog for an overview of the AJAX Spider Dialog