Usage:
-h [ site name ]
Example of valid site name:
http://site.com
https://site.com
https://site.com:port
site.com
-D : enables debug mode
-T [report type] : Default is HTML
Report types:
1 : ASCII
2 : HTML
-U [site username] : set the username for Basic Authentication
-P [site password] : set the password for Basic Authentication
-X [proxy host] : set the proxy host to use
-C [proxy port] : set the proxy port to use. Default is 80.
Special keys
S : If you type the 's' key in the console where metis is running, it will stop the spider.
more to come ...
Metis configuration files
You can control the way the code functions with the following configure files
located in the conf directory of your installation path.
webglobal.properties
Option | Description | Default Value |
default_port | Default port for HTTP connections |
80
|
debug |
0 : disable debug 1: enable debug |
0
|
useragent | The value will be used in the User-Agent request header for all HTTP/SSL request |
Riding the Snake v1.3
|
proxy_host | Proxy host to use | |
http_password | Password used for each requests | |
http_user | User used for each requests | |
timeout_retries | Number of times to retry a request when a timeout occurs |
0
|
socket_timeout | Number of mili seconds before a request will timeout |
10000
|
proxy_port | Proxy port to use |
80
|
max_request_download | This set the maximum file size the engine will download. This protects again downloads of large files when the engine is thinking the file content is simple html. Setting this value to 0 will tell the engine to download any file size. |
1572864
|
potential_html_file_ext | This is a list of file extensions that the engine considers as containing html. This is used to bypass some web server protections software. This was developed to allow spidering a site protected by SecureIIS from Eeye.com |
htm;html;shtml;stm;pl;cfm; php;php3;mv;cgi;asp;css |
threadmanager.properties
Option | Description | Default Value |
max_threads | This set the maximum number of request the engine will run in concurrence. |
100
|