sqlmapproject/sqlmap · error · SystemExit

aborting due to detected HTTP code '%d'

Error message

aborting due to detected HTTP code '%d'

What it means

Error "aborting due to detected HTTP code '%d'" thrown in sqlmapproject/sqlmap.

Source

Thrown at lib/request/connect.py:914

            if responseHeaders and getattr(responseHeaders, "headers", None):
                logHeaders = "".join(getUnicode(responseHeaders.headers)).strip()

            logHTTPTraffic(requestMsg, "%s%s\r\n\r\n%s" % (responseMsg, logHeaders, (page or "")[:MAX_CONNECTION_READ_SIZE]), start, time.time())

            skipLogTraffic = True

            if conf.verbose <= 5:
                responseMsg += getUnicode(logHeaders)
            elif conf.verbose > 5:
                responseMsg += "%s\r\n\r\n%s" % (logHeaders, (page or "")[:MAX_CONNECTION_READ_SIZE])

            if not multipart:
                logger.log(CUSTOM_LOGGING.TRAFFIC_IN, responseMsg)

            if code in conf.abortCode:
                errMsg = "aborting due to detected HTTP code '%d'" % code
                singleTimeLogMessage(errMsg, logging.CRITICAL)
                raise SystemExit

            if ex.code not in (conf.ignoreCode or []):
                if ex.code == TOO_MANY_REQUESTS_HTTP_CODE or (ex.code == _http_client.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE and Connect._parseRetryAfter(responseHeaders) is not None):
                    retried = Connect._rateLimitRetry(responseHeaders, ex.code, **kwargs)
                    if retried is not None:
                        return retried
                    debugMsg = "target kept rate-limiting after %d retries (%d)" % (conf.retries, code)
                    logger.debug(debugMsg)
                elif ex.code == _http_client.UNAUTHORIZED:
                    errMsg = "not authorized, try to provide right HTTP "
                    errMsg += "authentication type and valid credentials (%d). " % code
                    errMsg += "If this is intended, try to rerun by providing "
                    errMsg += "a valid value for option '--ignore-code'"
                    raise SqlmapConnectionException(errMsg)
                elif chunked and ex.code in (_http_client.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED, _http_client.LENGTH_REQUIRED):
                    warnMsg = "turning off HTTP chunked transfer encoding "
                    warnMsg += "as it seems that the target site doesn't support it (%d)" % code
                    singleTimeWarnMessage(warnMsg)

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at lib/request/connect.py:914 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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