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Crawl: "Discovering hidden content."

zok | Last updated: May 16, 2020 06:16PM UTC

When crawling a web app, the status eventually reports that it's "Discovering hidden content." I'm assuming that this isn't doing the same thing as "Engagement tools > Discover hidden content," correct? Is this referring to the crawler following links in comments and JavaScript (which has an option under the 'Miscellaneous' section of the crawl configuration)?

Ben, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: May 19, 2020 08:04AM UTC

Hi, At this point the crawler is following links from comments/JavaScript (i.e. things that are not actually linked from the page but the text for the link exists somewhere). Yes, these are the settings that can be configured in the Miscellaneous section of the Crawl Configuration.

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