[FEATURE REQUEST] pause/prioritise scan thread while scanning

[lrk]

Hi, first of all, thank you for the fantastic tool that feroxbuster is.

I would love to be able to pause individual scan thread and/or prioritise them to be able to concentrate on a particular directory url without cancelling other threads.

i think a p command in the scan menu with behaviour similar to the cancel command would be great for pausing scan threads
and a P [scan_id] [0-9] command to set url priority should be fine.

in case of paused threads, once other threads are finish, we can automatically resume the paused ones.

actually, i cancel urls i don't want to scan right now and relunch ferox to scan those particular ones, but most of the time forget to get back to it so end up not enumerating it.

I mainly use feroxbuster on CTF web challenge (THM/HTB/...)

Thank you.

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[lrk]

@epi052 any comments about that feature request ?

[epi052]

Sorry about that! I thought I had replied to this already. Thanks for taking the time to submit a feature idea!

Overall, I like the idea of pausing a scan, however, I'm working on some (long-term) stuff where this would be better suited, so would like to pin the issue, but don't plan on taking action on it in the near future.

I'd happily accept a PR in the interim though.

For anyone looking into it, the underlying JoinHandle doesn't have a pause (or similar) method. Likely would need some kind of busy loop to actually implement a pause.

Thanks again, and apologies for the long turn response time!

[lrk]

@epi052 no problem, do as you can, i just add a message because of the stale bot alert 🙂