Floyd,

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Floyd Fuh <floyd_...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> I spent the hole day to find out, why the webSpider stopped working (for
> me).
> The webSpider just stuck after a few seconds. I have an Ubuntu Karmic
> machine and I
> always had to "Force Quit" it.
>
> What didn't work:
> 1. Delete w3af completely and ".w3af" folder in home directory
> 2. svn checkout newest version
> 3. start w3af_gui
> 4. In empty_profile enable webSpider
> 5. Type in an URL
> 6. Start
> 7. --> webSpider stuck and I had to "Force Quit" it
>
> What did work:
> 1. Delete w3af completely and ".w3af" folder in home directory
> 2. svn checkout (for example) revision 3200 (svn co -r 3200)
> 3. start w3af_gui
> 4. In empty_profile enable webSpider
> 5. Type in an URL
> 6. Start (everything works correctly)
> 7. Close w3af_gui
> 8. svn update (to newest revision)
> 9. start w3af_gui
> 10. In empty_profile enable webSpider
> 11. Type in an URL
> 12. Start
>
> In all profiles inside the ".w3af" folder in the home directory
> "maxThreads = 0" was changed to "maxThreads = 15".
> However, that won't work at least for my Ubuntu machine.
>
> I had to change all profiles to "maxThreads = 0"
>
> Any ideas why "maxThreads = 15" doesn't work?

Damn... I don't know why this could be a problem. I just read the
webSpider plugin source code again, and failed to find anything. The
issue that you experience is that the framework simply locks, right?
No HTTP requests are sent, and the GUI is still usable?

Cheers,

> best wishes
> floyd
>
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