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Confused by "throttle between requests" vs "pause before retry"

Hello | Last updated: Jan 22, 2016 03:50PM UTC

Isn't setting 5000 milliseconds in "Pause before retry" the same thing as setting 5000 milliseconds in "throttle between requests"? Or is "throttle" a cumulative function giving us a delay of 5000 miliseconds multiplied by x where x is then number of failed retries?

Burp User | Last updated: Jan 22, 2016 03:52PM UTC

And assuming we set "pause before try" to "2000" and "throttle between requests" to "5000", how do these options work against each other?

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jan 22, 2016 04:46PM UTC

Throttle between requests is the delay between each request. Pause before retry applies after a failed request. You can configure Burp to pause so as to back off and let an overloaded app recover.

Burp User | Last updated: Jan 23, 2016 06:00PM UTC

With setting of 2000 and 5000 ms as stated above, after a failed request, does Burp wait 2000 ms or it waits 2000+5000 ms?

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jan 25, 2016 08:59AM UTC