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Programatic health check for Collaborator polling

Jonathan | Last updated: Nov 27, 2023 07:10PM UTC

Hi, I'd like to write a small script that gets cron'ed to check the polling health of burp collaborator for my job's private server. Polling goes down occasionally for consultants and I want to have it restart when I see that haead of time. Can you give me an example of a request I can send to my server's polling address so that I can proactively check if polling works? visiting the polling address alone just gives a 404

Michelle, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Nov 28, 2023 08:45AM UTC

Hi Although when you connect to the polling address, you get a 404 response, this is still an indicator that the collaborator server is running, so checking for this would still work for confirming the server was alive. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Jonathan | Last updated: Nov 30, 2023 05:39PM UTC

Hi Michelle, thanks for the reply! Is it possible to know how to perform the healthcheck myself? I imagine its done via some simple HTTP requests?

Michelle, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Dec 01, 2023 10:33AM UTC

Hi When Burp polls the collaborator server, the request sent is specific to the instance of Burp that has sent it. Could you drop an email to support@portswigger.net with a few more details about your setup and what you'd like to achieve?

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