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Enhancement Reqeust: Status and Pause/Resume

Open h121h opened this issue 9 years ago • 14 comments

What is the plausibility of you adding a status hotkey to return where gobuster is currently at in the wordlist and also a pause/resume? Or a switch to start at a specific position in a wordlist?

h121h avatar May 20 '16 23:05 h121h

Hi @h121h,

Thanks for the request. I think the most reasonable thing to do would be to add support for pause/resume, and it wouldn't be too hard to do either. The other things are a little more difficult, because:

  • The mechanism used for concurrency separates the parsing of the wordlist from the workers doing the work.
  • The workers have no visibility of the source of the words (and shouldn't, they should just handle the case for that word).
  • The main thread that parses the list has no visibility of what words have been successfully processed.

There'd have to be a bit of work in synchronising across the two to know what has been parsed and what hasn't. It's not impossible by any stretch, but I would question the value gained vs the effort to add the feature.

As far as "start from word X" is concerned, that would probably not be useful unless you knew where you stopped, so that might be moot at this point.

How about we go ahead with pause/resume, and at the same time add the ability to write directly to file as well as console so that UI interaction doesn't pollute the output? Sound ok?

OJ avatar May 23 '16 23:05 OJ

Hi @OJ,

That makes perfect sense and sounds like a plan. Thank you much for the quick response.

h121h avatar May 25 '16 15:05 h121h

This is still on the cards, I hope to at least be able to get this going by the end of the year. NEED MORE TIME!

OJ avatar Oct 30 '17 00:10 OJ

status progress is implemented in https://github.com/OJ/gobuster/pull/79

firefart avatar May 26 '18 17:05 firefart

Is there any progress in this enchantment of "pause/resume" option ?

BitThr3at avatar Apr 25 '20 09:04 BitThr3at

I have often a need to pause ?? any updates?

demiscuzz avatar Jun 09 '20 14:06 demiscuzz

This has been a feature for ages now.

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I have often a need to pause ?? any updates?

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OJ avatar Jun 09 '20 14:06 OJ

No way.... How would one go about pausing the a gobuster scan?

demiscuzz avatar Jun 09 '20 18:06 demiscuzz

Hrmm.. I think I might be wrong! I though I had implemented that, but based on the current code, I'm full of shit :P

Sorry, leave it with me.

OJ avatar Jun 09 '20 22:06 OJ

Hi, any plan for this feature?

elbae avatar Jul 27 '20 16:07 elbae

This would be handy to have, if it has not already been done

wifiuk avatar Dec 24 '20 13:12 wifiuk

BUMP

n0kovo avatar Mar 15 '22 03:03 n0kovo

was 7 years enough time? ;P

gobuster needs pause/resume feature

hazeyez avatar Jun 09 '22 03:06 hazeyez

was 7 years enough time? ;P

gobuster needs pause/resume feature

feel free to open a PR based on the dev branch

firefart avatar Jun 09 '22 13:06 firefart