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Suite Options: Misc

This tab contains settings for hotkeys, logging, location of temporary files, automatic backup, and scheduled tasks.

Hotkeys

These settings let you configure hotkeys for common actions. Numerous types of actions can be assigned a hotkey, in the following categories:

A number of hotkeys are configured by default. Note that very many more actions are available to have a hotkey assigned, if you use them frequently.

All hotkeys must use the Control key (or the Command key on OSX), and may also use Shift and other available modifiers. Note that on some Windows installations the Ctrl+Alt combination is treated by Windows as equivalent to AltGr, and so may result in typed characters appearing when pressed in text fields. 

Logging

These settings control logging of HTTP requests and responses. Logging can be configured per-tool or for all Burp traffic.

Temporary Files Location

These settings let you configure where Burp stores its temporary files.

By default, Burp creates a directory within the temporary file location provided by the platform. You can modify this behavior to use a custom directory - for example, on a different volume, or which is not world-readable.

On Mac OS X, you may find that the default temporary file location is sometimes cleared following system hibernation, causing Burp to lose its temporary files. You can resolve this problem by configuring a custom location for Burp to store its temporary files.

Changes to this setting take effect the next time Burp starts up.

Automatic Backup

[Pro version] These settings let you configure Burp to save a backup of all tools' state and configuration in the background at a configurable interval, and also optionally on exit.

Using these options means you will generally have a recent backup copy of your work in the event that Burp exits abnormally. If you have configured the target scope for your work, you can use the "Include in-scope items only" to reduce the amount of data that must be saved.

Scheduled Tasks

[Pro version] See the Task Scheduler help.

User Forum

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Monday, October 8, 2012

v1.5rc3

This release fixes a bug which was introduced in the v1.5rc2 release, and which caused the active scan checks for XSS to fail to execute in some situations

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