[FEATURE REQUEST] Is there an option to not go for another request before the tool didn't receive a response from the server

[jedai47]

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an option to not go for another request before the tool didn't receive a response from the server

[epi052]

howdy!

you should be able to use -t 1 -L 1 to achieve what you're asking for.

https://epi052.github.io/feroxbuster-docs/docs/configuration/limit-connections/

[jedai47]

i tried that but it didnt work still i see multiple requests going without waiting the response from the server, here is the url example: https://www.poledesanteduvilleneuvois.fr/

[jedai47]

i also added : --rate-limit 1 but still without success

[epi052]

--rate-limit 1 -L 1 should give you one request per second to the target. it may take a few requests at the beginning to slow down to 1/sec

[jedai47]

well i guess we get banned in the few requests at the beginning so you think u can improve the tool behavior ?

[epi052]

-L 1 forces only a single directory at a time, limiting that form of asynchronicity.

-t 1 means only a single thread is operating at a time. the requests are likely to still go out asynchronously, but the responses should be handled as they're received by the single thread, slowing down the sending once responses start flowing.

ultimately, what you want is a synchronous client, and feroxbuster doesn't support that.

if you happen to write rust code, i have a library you could use to build your own synchronous fuzzer https://github.com/epi052/feroxfuzz

[jedai47]

Oh i see thanks for your response im not good on rust. Do you know any other tool that works synchronously ?

[epi052]

you can check gobuster/ffuf/wfuzz. there are others, but some names are escaping me rn.

gobuster and ffuf are both async tools, so may have a similar problem to ferox in that regard. wfuzz may be single threaded but im not sure.

if you truly need something super slow, you could always wirte a simple python script with requests

for line in wordlist.readlines():
    requests.get(f'{url}/line')