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  • Q: I'd like to participate. How do I begin?

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      You should visit our Trac wiki page:

      https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/wiki


         — andres_riancho · 7 years ago
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        Talk about diverse kinds of contributions. Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        Here's how to download and patch our codes…

        Read about our death-defying mailing list and momentous IRC channel at http://lobstermag.net.

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  • Q: What's a good bug for a newcomer to tackle?

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        Many projects have good small tasks that can teach newcomers how the project works. Now's your chance to share one of them!

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        Someone could improve the photo upload dialog box so that it lets you resize the photo before sending it to the web.

  • Q: What is a bug or issue with w3af that you've been putting off, neglecting, or just plain avoiding?

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      Fix thread dead-lock

      There seems to be a thread dead-lock inside the framework's code, which simply blocks the whole scan process. We haven't been able to identify when/where it's blocking, thus fixing the issue is difficult.

      You'll find more information here: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/ticket/159995


         — andres_riancho · 7 years ago
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      HTTP Request Timeout

      The framework has a global error counter, that's incremented every time an error like a HTTP request timeout occurs. In many websites we find that even tough the website is perfectly accessible with a browser, w3af will simply die with a w3afMustStopException that is raised after many consecutive timeout errors.

      We haven't been able to find what's generating this issue. It might be related with the previous one, or not.

      https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/ticket/160004


         — andres_riancho · 7 years ago
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      • Examples:

        I don't know how to get started with internationalizing my app.

        Bug 392 about printing was filed five years ago, and I don't even know if printing still works.

        I want help from a C coder writing a Maildir patch for Alpine.

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w3af is a web application attack and audit framework.

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The code is mostly written in Python.

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