In the preceding section, I showed you the manual method for finding interesting directories, and you can do the same for finding pages, as well. If you have no time and you want to use an automated method, Burp offers you an easy way to scan your projects:
- Go to the Target tab, and, in the site map, right-click on your Target project and select Spider this branch from the menu. At this point, the Spider tab will blink, telling you that it's in progress; depending on the application depth, this action should not take too long to execute.
- If you want to check for the progress of the crawling, go to the Spider tab and select the Control sub-tab, and you should get an idea of what is going on there: ...