Web application cartography: mapping out Burp Suite’s crawler

Published

2021-03-05 15:07

Collected

2026-07-01 11:05

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id: 339
title: "Web application cartography: mapping out Burp Suite’s crawler"
source_domain: portswigger.net
source_url: "https://portswigger.net/blog/web-application-cartography-mapping-out-burp-suites-crawler"
published_at: "2021-03-05 15:07"
tags: ["burp-suite", "burp-scanner", "crawler", "architecture", "web-crawling", "session-handling"]
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# Web application cartography: mapping out Burp Suite’s crawler

## Summary

A look at Burp Scanner's crawler evolution since 2008: the Burp 2 rewrite maps applications automatically and maintains session context per request, freeing testers from manual session handling.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** portswigger.net
- **Published:** 2021-03-05 15:07
- **Original:** https://portswigger.net/blog/web-application-cartography-mapping-out-burp-suites-crawler
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/339