---
id: 388
title: "Handling application errors during scans"
source_domain: portswigger.net
source_url: "https://portswigger.net/blog/handling-application-errors-during-scans"
published_at: "2018-08-12T15:37:00Z"
tags: ["burp-suite", "resilience", "scanner", "mobp", "error-handling", "retries"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/388"
lang: en
---

# Handling application errors during scans

## Summary

Burp's new scanner tracks scan errors granularly, retries failed operations in follow-up passes after each phase, and can optionally pause the whole scan when an application appears to be down.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** portswigger.net
- **Published:** 2018-08-12T15:37:00Z
- **Original:** https://portswigger.net/blog/handling-application-errors-during-scans
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/388