HelpAddonsSpiderAjaxOptions

Options AJAX Spider screen

This screen allows you to configure the AJAX Spider options. The AJAX Spider is an add-on for a crawler called Crawljax. The add-on sets up a local proxy in ZAP to talk to Crawljax. The AJAX Spider allows you to crawl web applications written in AJAX in far more depth than the native Spider. Use the AJAX Spider if you may have web applications written in AJAX. You should also use the native Spider as well for complete coverage of a web application (e.g., to cover HTML comments).

Configuration option explanation

Configuration Options
Field	Details	Default
Browser	AJAX Spider relies on an external browser to crawl the targeted site. You can specify which one you want to use. For more details on supported browsers refer to "Selenium" add-on help pages.	Firefox
Number of Browser Windows to Open	You can configure the number of windows to be used by AJAX Spider. The more windows, the faster the process will be.	1
Maximum Crawl Depth	The maximum depth that the crawler can reach. Zero means unlimited depth.	10
Maximum Crawl States	The maximum number of states that the crawler should crawl. Zero means unlimited crawl states.	0 (unlimited)
Maximum Duration	The maximum time that the crawler is allowed to run. Zero means unlimited running time.	60 minutes
Event Wait Time	The time to wait after a client side event is fired.	1000 ms
Reload Wait Time	The time to wait after URL is loaded.	1000 ms
Click Elements Once	When enabled, the crawler attempts to interact with each element (e.g., by clicking) only once. If this is not set, the crawler will attempt to click multiple times. Unsetting this option is more rigorous but may take considerably more time.	True
Use Random Values in Form Fields	When enabled, inserts random values into form fields. Otherwise, it uses empty values.	True
Click Default Elements Only	When enabled, only elements "a", "button" and "input" will be clicked during crawl. Otherwise, it uses the table below to determine which elements will be clicked. For more in depth analysis, disable this and configure the clickable elements in the table.	True
Select elements to click during crawl (table)	The list of elements to crawl. This table only applies when "click default elements only" is not enabled. Use "enable all" for a more in depth analysis, though it may take somewhat longer.	All enabled

See also

	AJAX Spider	for an overview of the AJAX Spider
	AJAX Spider tab	for an overview of the AJAX Spider Tab
	AJAX Spider dialog	for an overview of the AJAX Spider Dialog