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How do I tell content-discovery to give up on a certain directory tree

Tim | Last updated: Jan 24, 2023 06:19PM UTC

This is a common problem with automated spidering tools: It gets stuck (for days in some cases) in a directory structure like /blog/2023/01/post1 and /blog/2023/01/post2 etc. and it does a good job discovering that /blog/2022 also exists but I don't need it to exhaust itself on this directory. There are hundreds of queued tasks looking for items in the blog directory and I don't see a way to delete those. I tried taking /blog/ out of scope but it still enumerates content there. Thanks!

Hannah, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jan 25, 2023 10:19AM UTC