Web spider

noun

Web spider

noun

1

Internet A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web.

More precisely, the typical workflow of a vulnerability scanners consists of the following steps: – First, a web spider crawls the site to find valid injection points2008, Richard Lippmann, Engin Kirda, Ari Trachtenberg, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 11th International Symposium, page 194:

Synonyms: ant, automatic indexer, bot, Web crawler, Web robot, Web scutter

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