webscarab error

[Vurraz]

Hello, I've tried using webscarab today to try to crawl a website...

I've noticed that webscarab uses 127.0.0.1:8008 as a proxy so I've set my Iceweasel browser proxy appropriately and when I tried navigating to the target website I've received this error in my browser, how do I fix it?

Please notice that I've replaced the actual domain name with 'xx' for discretion..

WebScarab encountered an error trying to retrieve

GET xx

Host: xx

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Iceweasel/38.5.0

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Referer: xx

Cookie: __cfduid=db03a54a38722d4dbc1fdca62cdd39c031450900438; __utma=169678269.239294492.1450900443.1450900443.1450907363.2; __utmz=169678269.1450900443.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); PHPSESSID=her04reoorrl33fe2isrf8hka1; __utmb=169678269.15.10.1450907363; __utmc=169678269; __asc=afdea951151d0d5e16a3fb78073; __auc=afdea951151d0d5e16a3fb78073

Connection: keep-alive

Cache-Control: max-age=0

The error was :

No appropriate protocol (protocol is disabled or cipher suites are inappropriate)

at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.activate(Handshaker.java:470)

at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.kickstartHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1450)

at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1320)

at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:721)

at sun.security.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:122)

at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:82)

at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:140)

at org.owasp.webscarab.model.Request.writeDirect(Request.java:233)

at org.owasp.webscarab.model.Request.writeDirect(Request.java:214)

at org.owasp.webscarab.httpclient.URLFetcher.fetchResponse(URLFetcher.java:242)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.openid.OpenIdHTTPClient.fetchResponse(OpenIdHTTPClient.java:59)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.saml.SamlHTTPClient.fetchResponse(SamlHTTPClient.java:94)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.CookieTracker$Plugin.fetchResponse(CookieTracker.java:130)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.BrowserCache$Plugin.fetchResponse(BrowserCache.java:101)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.RevealHidden$Plugin.fetchResponse(RevealHidden.java:100)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.BeanShell$Plugin.fetchResponse(BeanShell.java:229)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.ManualEdit$Plugin.fetchResponse(ManualEdit.java:243)

at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.ConnectionHandler.run(ConnectionHandler.java:223)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[cooper]

Webscarab is trying to do an SSL handshake with... something, basically make the connection HTTPS, but the thing you're trying to talk with only speaks HTTP. That's why you get the error.

Like this:

Iceweasel <---> WebScarab <---> Website

When webscarab talks to Website, the communication there is expected by WebScarab to be HTTPS, but instead it's plain HTTP, which it apparently can't handle.