Andres,
> ...
>
> * Discovery plugins x and y are enabled
> * URL 1 is set as target
> * x is fed with URL 1 as starting point
> * x is run and finds URLs 2, 3. For some reason we don't care about it
> performs HTTP GET requests to 2 and 3.
> * y is fed with URL 1 as starting point
>      - If using the technique implemented in "y", it finds the URL "2" and "4"
>      - For some reason we don't care about, it also performs HTTP GET
> requests to "2" and "4".
>      - The HTTP requests are performed using the xUrllib
>      - xUrllib has a cache, and because a request to "2" was already
> performed, it should take the response out of the cache; no network
> traffic is generated
>      - The request for URL "4" is sent to the network
>      - Plugin "y" returns the "2" and "4" knowledge to the w3afCore
>      - The w3afCore should at that point say: "I already know about 2,
> thanks but I won't add duplicates", "I'll add URL 4 to my list"
>
>      If the framework IS working like this, I think that the shared
> fuzzable request list wouldn't do much good. If it is not working like
> this (and I would love to get an output log to show it), it seems that
> we have a lot of work ahead of us.
And w3afCore need to filter requests from discovery plugins on every 
loop in _discover_and_bruteforce(), am I right?
What I also think about is that filtering of variants like currently in 
webSpider is not job of custom discovery plugin.

> PS: fuzzableRequestList can't be a child of Python's list, we
> shouldn't have all those items in memory
>
> Regards,
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