Very New to ZAP - Help with Spider Job in ZAP Automation Framework

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Sun

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Jun 9, 2025, 6:52:13 AM6/9/25
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Hi all,

As the title suggests, I’m new to ZAP and have been working through the documentation and tutorial videos.

Objective:
Run a ZAP baseline scan against a target URL that requires authentication.

Current Setup:
In my automation framework, I’ve included the following jobs:

  1. Passive Config

  2. Requester

  3. Spider

  4. Passive Wait

  5. Report

Issue:

  • Without authentication in the Spider job, the scan understandably fails to authenticate.

  • When I include authentication in the Spider job, the framework fails with the error:
    [Job spider failed to access URL <starting url> : Read Timed Out]

Authentication appears to be working correctly in the Authentication Tester, so I’m unsure why the Spider job is timing out.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Sun

Simon Bennetts

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Jun 12, 2025, 5:30:23 AM6/12/25
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Hiya Sun,

Did you use the context created by the Authentication Tester? If not you should do that.
Also, is it a modern app, ie one that makes heavy use of Java Script?

Cheers,

Simon
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