The Options tab

Under the Options tab, a tester has the following options:

  • Crawler Settings: It provides the ability to regulate the number of links deep Spider will follow; also identifies basic web content to Spider for on a website such as the robots.txt file:
  • Passive Spidering: Spiders newly-discovered content in the background and is turned on by default:
  • Form Submission: It provides the ability to determine how Spider interacts with forms. Several options are available including ignore, prompt for guidance, submit with default values ...

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