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How Do I Stop Passive Requests to Well-known Paths?

Aidan | Last updated: Dec 18, 2023 04:10PM UTC

Every time I load a page in the Burp browser, it makes several passive requests in the background to well-known paths like /.git, /.env, etc... I have unloaded all of my extensions, so this must be coming from some config in the base product? How can I turn this off/

Ben, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Dec 19, 2023 10:21AM UTC

Hi Aidan, The default 'Live passive crawl from Proxy' task will automatically add links discovered in pages that are browsed to via a proxied browser to the site map. You can disable this task if you do not wish to have this behaviour.

Aidan | Last updated: Dec 19, 2023 11:45AM UTC

Hi Ben, I have turned off 'Live passive crawl from Proxy' but I still see this behaviour. The URLs Burp is requesting are not linked in the pages that I'm trying to visit. Please advise.

Ben, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Dec 19, 2023 11:51AM UTC

Hi Aidan, Are you able to email us at support@portswigger.net and include some examples of exactly what you are doing and what you are seeing so that we can see this more clearly?

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