WebApp Sec: Re: webapp dependencies

[Scovetta Labs <security () scovettalabs com>]

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/' + 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