Enhancement Reqeust: Status and Pause/Resume

[h121h]

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?

[OJ]

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?

[h121h]

Hi @OJ,

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

[OJ]

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!

[firefart]

status progress is implemented in #79

[BitThr3at]

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

[demiscuzz]

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

[OJ]

This has been a feature for ages now.

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[demiscuzz]

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

[OJ]

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.

[elbae]

Hi, any plan for this feature?

[wifiuk]

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

[n0kovo]

BUMP

[hazeyez]

was 7 years enough time? ;P

gobuster needs pause/resume feature

[firefart]

was 7 years enough time? ;P

gobuster needs pause/resume feature

feel free to open a PR based on the dev branch