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Re: webapp dependencies


From: Scovetta Labs <security () scovettalabs com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:07:58 -0400

Don,
I'm sure something exists (or could be written easily in Perl) to scan all content for local href links and find unreferenced content. However, you might miss something, all you need is a script that says:
<script>
 var x = prompt('enter a resource name');
 window.location.href='http://server/&apos; + x;
</script>

...and then the client has control over what resources to access. (Not to mention the countless other ways that resources wouldn't be known until runtime).

The other way to do it would be to go through your web server access logs and determine all of the files that don't appear in it. You'd probably want to go back quite a while.

Hope that helps--

-Mike


Jarmon, Don R wrote:
I looking for a tool that will analysis content hosted on a web site,
identify all the webapp dependencies, and report on any non-essential
content.  The tool would run from the server.  Does such a tool exist?



--
Michael Scovetta
Scovetta Labs
www.scovettalabs.com


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