HelpUiDialogsSessionContexts

Session Context screens

These screens allows you manage contexts.

There is a set of screens for each context you define.

Top screen

This allows you to set the context name and description.

Include in Context

This allows you to manage the URLs which will be included in the context. URLs which dont match any of the regexs will not be included in the context. Note: The regular expressions must match the whole URL.

Exclude from Context

This allows you to manage the URLs which will be excluded from the context. You only need to specify regexs for URLs that you do not want to include but which match one or more of the 'include' regexes. Note: The regular expressions must match the whole URL.

Structure

See the Session Context Structure screen.

Technology

This allows you to specify the technologies used in the context, if known. By default all technologies are included. If you exclude technologies that you know are not used then this may speed up active scanning as rules specific to the excluded technologies can be skipped.

Authentication

See the Session Context Authentication screen.

Session Management

This allows you to manage the way in which Session Management is being done for the Context. After selecting the Session Management Method type, the options that need to be configured depend on the Session Management Method.

Cookie-Based Session Management

No configuration is needed for this session management method. Read more...

HTTP Authentication Session Management

No configuration is needed for this session management method. Read more...

Users

This allows you to configure a set of Users that may be used for various other actions throughout the application.

The credentials section of the Users depends on the Authentication Method configured for the Context.

URL regexs

In the Include in *, Exclude from * panels and the Logged in/out indicators of the Authentication panel, you can enter regular expressions to define excluded URLs. While you can escape a single meta-character with a backslash, you can also use the \Q...\E escape sequence. All the characters between the \Q and the \E are interpreted as literal characters. E.g. \Q*\d+*\E matches the literal text *\d+*. This escape sequence is used in ZAP when you exclude URLs via some context menus. Note: If your URL contains a "\E", then you have to do the following steps when using the \Q...\E escape sequence:

• Open the escape sequence
• Close the escape sequence before the "character" \E
• Escape the backslash
• Open after the "\E" another escape sequence;
• Close the escape sequence as normally would.

Example: subdomain.example.com/path?a=\E&moredata=2 should appear as \Qsubdomain.example.com/path?a=\E**\\E***\Q&moredata=2\E*

Accessed via

Top level File menu

'Properties...' menu item

See also

	UI Overview	for an overview of the user interface
	Dialogs	for details of the dialogs or popups
	Authentication	for an overview of Authentication
	Session Management	for an overview of Session Management