---
id: 393
title: "Automatically maintaining session during scans"
source_domain: portswigger.net
source_url: "https://portswigger.net/blog/automatically-maintaining-session-during-scans"
published_at: "2018-08-07T16:18:00Z"
tags: ["burp-suite", "automation", "session-handling", "scanner", "mobp", "crawl-graph"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/393"
lang: en
---

# Automatically maintaining session during scans

## Summary

Burp's new scanner automatically maintains sessions during audits by leveraging the crawl graph, finding the shortest path to each request and re-walking it as needed, with zero configuration.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** portswigger.net
- **Published:** 2018-08-07T16:18:00Z
- **Original:** https://portswigger.net/blog/automatically-maintaining-session-during-scans
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/393