History tab

The History tab shows a list of all of the requests in the order in which they were made.
For each request you can see:
     The request index - each request is numbered, starting at 1
     The HTML method, e.g. GET or POST
     The URL requested
     The HTTP response code
     A short summary of what the HTTP response code means
     The length of time the whole request took
     Any Alerts on the request
     Any Notes you have added to request
     Any Tags on the request
Selecting a requests will display it in the Request tab and Response tab above.

The filter toolbar

A filter toolbar is provided which allows you to restrict which requests are displayed.
Clicking on the Filter button displays the History Filter dialog.
A summary of the filter currently applied is displayed to the right of the button.

Right click menu

Right clicking on a node will bring up a menu which will allow you to:

Attack

The Attack menu has the following submenus:

Active Scan Site

This will initiate an active scan of the whole of the site containing the selected node.
The Active Scan tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Active Scan Node

This will initiate an active scan of just the node selected.
The Active Scan tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Spider Site

This will initiate a spider of the whole of the site containing the selected node.
The Spider tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Brute Force Site

This will initiate a brute force of the whole of the site containing the selected node.
The Brute Force tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Port Scan host

This will initiate a port scan of the host for the selected node.
The Port Scan tab will be display and will show the progress of the scan.

Exclude from

This menu has the following submenus:

Proxy

This will exclude the selected nodes from the proxy. They will still be proxied via ZAP but will not be shown in any of the tabs.
This can be used to ignore URLs that you know are not relevant to the system you are currently testing.
The nodes can be included again via the Session Properties dialog

Scanner

This will prevent the selected nodes from being actively scanned.
The nodes can be included again via the Session Properties dialog

Spider

This will prevent the selected nodes from being spidered.
The nodes can be included again via the Session Properties dialog

Run application

This menu allows you to invoke applications that you have configured via the Options Applications screen which is also accessible via the 'Configure applications...' submenu.

Manage Tags...

This will bring up the Manage Tags dialog which allows you to change the tags associated with the request.

Note...

This will bring up the Add Note dialog which allows you to record notes related to the request.

Delete

This will remove the node and all of its children from ZAP.
However they can be added back in, to prevent this use the 'Exclude from' menus.

Break...

This will bring up the Add Break Point dialog which allows you to set a break point on that URL.

Scan this History

This will perform an active scan against the URL related to the selected request.

Resend...

This will bring up the Resend dialog which allows you to resend the request after making any changes to it that you want to.

New Alert...

This will bring up the Add Alert dialog which allows you to manually record a new alert against this request.

Show in Sites tab

This will show the selected message in the Sites tab.

Open URL in Browser

This will open the URL of the selected node in your default browser.

See also

     UI Overviewfor an overview of the user interface