Options Connection screen

The Options Connection screen allows you to configure the ZAP connection options:

Timeout (in seconds)

This makes is easier to test slow applications.

Default User Agent

The user agent that ZAP should use when creating HTTP messages (for example, spider messages or CONNECT requests to outgoing proxy).

Controls whether the ZAP's managed cookies (Enable (Global) HTTP State) should be set on a single “Cookie” request header or multiple “Cookie” request headers, when sending an HTTP request to the server.

Enable (Global) HTTP State

This allows session details stored in cookies to be tracked.
This option must be selected to enable the “Use current tracking session” checkbox in the Manual Request Editor dialogs.
Session tracking ensures that any requests are sent with the latest session details.
For example you may record a session when logged in as one user and then logout and login as another user.
If you resend a request from the first session without session tracking then it will use the cookies from the first session.
If you resend the same request with session tracking then it will use the cookies from the second session.

DNS

TTL Successful Queries

Defines for how long the successful DNS queries should be cached:

Negative number, cache forever;
Zero, disables caching;
Positive number, the number of seconds the queries will be cached.

Note: Changes are applied after a restart.

The option can also be set using the -config command line argument with the key connection.dnsTtlSuccessfulQueries.

Security Protocols

Allows to choose the SSL/TLS versions enabled for outgoing connections (for example, to servers). At least one version must be enabled, versions unsupported by the JRE will be unselected and disabled.
The option SSLv2Hello must be selected in conjunction with at least one SSL/TLS version.

Use Proxy Chain

This section allows you to connect to another proxy for outgoing connections.
This is often required in a corporate environment.

Proxy Authentication

This section allows you to configure the outgoing proxy authentication.

SOCKS Proxy

This section allows you to configure an outgoing SOCKS proxy, by default the SOCKS proxy configuration applies to all connections made by ZAP.

The SOCKS proxy system properties (e.g. socksProxyHost, socksProxyPort) take precedence over the persisted configurations for compatibility with older ZAP versions. ZAP will use and display the values of the system's properties when defined at startup, the configurations can still be changed in this panel.

Note: Loopback addresses (e.g. localhost, 127.0.01, ::1) are not proxied through the SOCKS proxy, the connections will be done directly.

Enabled

If ZAP should use the configured SOCKS proxy.
Default: unselected, unless the SOCKS proxy system properties are defined, in which case it is selected.

Host

The host name or address of the SOCKS proxy.
Default: localhost.

Port

The port of the SOCKS proxy.
Default: 1080.

Version

The version of the SOCKS proxy.
Default: 5.

Use SOCKS’ DNS

If ZAP should let the SOCKS proxy resolve the host names. Requires a version 5 SOCKS proxy.
This might lead to connection failures if the SOCKS proxy is not able to resolve the host name (e.g. use of names that are defined in a hosts file).
Default: selected.

Authentication

The following fields allow to configure the authentication credentials for the SOCKS proxy.

User Name

The user name.
Default: none.

Password

The password.
Default: none.
Note: Stored in clear text in the configuration file.


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