Frequently Asked Questions

Troubleshooting

• Somethings not working. What should I do?

General Questions

• Does ZAP offer community services?
• How do I get a specific feature implemented in ZAP?
• How do I use Chrome with ZAP in Docker?
• What 'calls home' does ZAP make?
• What are the command line options?
• What data does ZAP collect?
• What does ZAP test for?
• What is the default directory that ZAP uses?
• What versions of Java are supported?
• Where can I ask ZAP related questions?
• Where does ZAP put its logs?
• Where is ZAP installed?
• Why does my Antivirus Tool Flag ZAP?
• Why does ZAP Access Out of Scope Domains?
• Why don't you rewrite ZAP in <my favorite language>?
• Why is ZAP not available in my language?

Scanning

• How can I add my own payloads to active scan rules?
• How can I prevent ZAP from sending me 1000s of emails via a 'Contact Us' form?
• How can you speed up scans?
• How do I handle a False Positive?
• How do I report a False Negative?
• How often are scan rules updated?
• Is there any danger when scanning with ZAP against a live website (e.g. create/delete/update/corrupt data)?
• Someone is using ZAP to attack my website - what should I do?
• What should I do if ZAP doesn't detect a known problem?
• Why can ZAP scans be inconsistent?

Howtos

• How can I add an application icon for ZAP to Fedora / Gnome 3?
• How can I fix 'browser was not found'?
• How can you import POST requests?
• How can you start ZAP?
• How can ZAP automatically authenticate via forms?
• How do you add a script to ZAP from the command line?
• How do you configure ZAP logging?
• How do you find out what key to use to set a config value on the command line?

Networking

• How can I connect to ZAP remotely?
• How can I use ZAP with a Java application which connects to a web service over SSL?
• How do you configure ZAP to test an application on localhost?
• How to connect to an HTTPS site that reports a handshake failure?
• What options exist for selective proxying?
• Why can't ZAP connect to my web application?

API

• How can I use the ZAP API in my own regression tests?
• How can you use ZAP to scan APIs?
• Why is an API key required by default?

Desktop UI

• Fonts in ZAP look bad on my system - what should I do?
• How can I run ZAP with a high DPI display?
• How can you easily maximize a tab?
• What causes: Exception in thread 'AWT-EventQueue-0' when loading ZAP on Docked Mac OSX?
• Why am I getting blank ZAP windows on Linux?

Detailed Questions

• How can ZAP test sites that use certificate pinning?
• How do I see what version of an add-on/extension I have installed?
• What is ZAP's assurance case?
• Why are there missing History IDs?
• Why has the Quick Scan Attack reported an invalid URL?

Technologies Supported

• Can ZAP be used to test mobile apps?
• Can ZAP be used to test my favorite framework or technology?
• Can ZAP be used to test my favorite vulnerable app?
• Can ZAP be used to test Windows 8 Metro apps?
• Setting up ZAP to Test Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA)
• Setting up ZAP to Test OWASP Pixi
• Setting up ZAP to Test Vaadin Apps
• What operating systems are supported?
• What vulnerability classifications are supported?

Automation

• How Can I set Variables in the Automation Framework?
• What is the Best Way to Automate ZAP?