Crawling Doesn't Happen Against Root Directory

[eth0-re]

Absolutely loving the new crawling behaviour! Especially with Spidy no longer working on Python 3.10!

Just found an issue where the base path is not included as a source for the crawler. I've created a hacky workaround, but I expect there's a much more semantically correct method

What is the current behavior?

When scanning using the --crawl, only directories that were hit during a normal brute force are passed to the crawler.

For example, scanning "example.org" with the crawl flag and a wordlist containing just "admin" would run the crawler against "example.org/admin", but not example.org itself.

This appears to be a combination of 2 behaviours:

• Firstly, when building the dictionary, there's no raw/empty or "no-payload" entry. Though this can be hacked in by adding the following line to the Fuzzer's init:

• 52 on fuzzer.py if options["crawl"]: self._dictionary._items.insert(0, "")

• Secondly, even when including an empty item in the path, the wildcard checking under the fuzzer's scan function ("for tester in scanners") returns false. Though admittedly I didn't dig into exactly why this is failing. Bypassing it for the specific instance of a root request from the crawler had the desired but hacky effect:

• 176 on fuzzer.py if options["crawl"] and path != '':

What is the expected behavior?

The --crawl directive should ideally work even with a completely empty wordlist, with the base path being sent to the crawler

[shelld3v]

Seems to be a great idea, dirsearch should crawl the base path too, thanks for your suggestion!