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Utterly unclear on the purpose of spider

Spiderman's | Last updated: Apr 14, 2015 03:21PM UTC

My impression is that spider expands the sitemap as it crawls, aided by its form submission abilities, etc. But after I spider my entire host, I notice that manual active scanning the entire host does not make a difference in the number of URLs populating the scan queue, compared to just actively scanning the host alone without spidering first. So does spidering not increase the number of available URLs to scan? Or is spidering instead meant to potentially increase the number of vulnerabilities per URL being scanned? Definitely hoping someone can set me straight here. I'm just not sure when to spider, or what Burp functions that spidering is supposed to help complement.

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Apr 15, 2015 08:20AM UTC