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Zebra TesterZebraTester's Page Scanner function browses and explores web pages of a web server automatically in a recursive way - similar to a Web Spider or a Web Crawler.
Page Scanner's Purpose
Primary
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: To turn a "normal" web surfing session
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into a load test program
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. This provides a simplified way to create a web surfing session
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instead of recording single web pages manually.
However, Page Scanner can only be used to acquire web surfing sessions that do not require HTML form-based authentication. This tool is not a replacement for recording web surfing sessions of real web applications.
Other
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: Page Scanner allows the detection of broken links inside a
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website and provides statistical data about the largest and slowest web pages. It also supports searching for text fragments overall scanned web pages.
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Note 1: Page Scanner does not interpret JavaScript code and does not submit forms. Only hyperlinks are considered. Cookies are automatically supported. |
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Note 2: Page Scanner keeps the entire scanned |
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website in its transient memory (RAM) in compressed form. This means that large |
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websites can be scanned, but it also means that transient memory is not unlimited. |
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Please note that the Page Scanner tool may return no result |
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or |
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return an incomplete result because some |
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websites or web pages contain malformed HTML code |
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or because old, unusual HTML options have been used within the scanned web pages. Although this tool has been intensively tested, we |
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cannot provide any warranty for error-free behavior. Possible |
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website--or webpage-related errors--may be impossible to fix because of divergent requirements |
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or |
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complexity. The functionality and behavior |
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are similar to other search engines, which also have |
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similar restrictions. |
Overview
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GUI Display
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The window is divided into two parts.
Scan Result: The upper part of the window shows the progress of the scan, scan's progress or the scan results when the scan it has been completed.
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Page Scanner Input Parameter: The lower part of the window allows the setting of scan input parameters and starting a scan.
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Page Scanner Parameter Inputs
| The scan starts from this URL. Optionally, scan only parts of a website by entering a deep-linked URL path; for example, |
| The default value, |
| Excludes one or more URL path patterns from scanning. Commas separate the path patterns. |
| Include content and web pages from other web servers within the scan; for example, when images embedded in the web pages are located on another web server. Enter several additional web servers, separated by commas. Example: |
| Verify all external links to all other web servers. This is commonly used to detect broken hyperlinks to other web servers. |
| Affects which sets of embedded content types should also be included in the scan. Page Scanner uses the URL paths' file extensions to determine the content type (if available) because this can be done before the hyperlink of the embedded content itself is processed. This saves execution time, but it might affect a few URLs for excluded content types flow into the result from scanning because the MIME type of the received HTTP response headers is only used in detecting web pages. Remove these unwanted URLs after the scan has been completed by using the "remove URL" form in the Display Result window. |
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Content-Type Sets | Corresponding File Extensions |
Images, Flash, CSS, JS |
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PDF Documents |
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Office Documents |
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ASCII Text Files |
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Music and Movies |
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Binary Files |
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| Allows you to select or de-select specific file extensions using the keywords -add or -remove. Example: -remove .gif -add .mp2 |
| Limits the maximum scan time in minutes. The scan will be stopped if this time is exceeded. |
| Limits the maximum number of scanned web pages. The scan will be stopped if the maximum number of web pages is exceeded. |
| Limits the maximum size of the received data (in megabytes), measured over the entire scan. The scan will be stopped if the maximum size of the received data is exceeded. |
| Limits the maximum number of executed URLcalls, measured over the entire scan. The scan will be stopped if the maximum number of executed URL calls is exceeded. |
| Ddefines the response timeout, in seconds, per single URL call. If this timeout expires, the URLcall will be reported as failed (no response from web server). |
| Limits the maximum URL path depth of scanned web pages. Example: |
| Limits the total number of followed HTTP redirects during the scan. |
| Limits the number of path repetitions which can occur within a single URL path. This parameter acts as protection against endless loops in scanning, and should usually be set to 1 (default) or 2. Example: |
| This (by default disabled) option acts as protection against receiving almost identical URLs many times if they differ only in their CGI parameters. If disabled, only the first similar URL will be processed. Example: the first URL |
| Allows scanning protected web sites (or web pages). |
| Sets which default language should be preferred when scanning multilingual web sites. |
| Apply the Personal Settings menu's Next Proxy Configuration when scanning through an (outgoing) proxy server. |
| Select the SSL protocol version to communicate with HTTPS servers (encrypted connections). |
| Enter a short comment about the scan. |
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Analyze Scan
Convert Scan Result
A Page Scanner result can be converted into a “normal” web surfing session, which can be used to create creating a load test program.