SQLi progress feedback

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Issue type
Feature
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Mostly clear
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Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
security

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Start by locating the SQLi libraries and comparing their output with the command stagers' progress messages. Determine how a configurable percentage should apply to long blind-SQLi dumps, then verify that progress reports include both percentage and characters completed without changing extraction results.

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Description

suggestion-feature

@red0xff and I had previously discussed someway of giving feedback for SQLi where the output isn't near instant. So a blind SQLi for instance. I LOVE how sqlmap will give you _________ then fill it in like a_mini___a_or. It's a neat gui trick. Now obviously we can't do that with MSF, but when you have to dump 400+ characters and it takes 30+ minutes, its pretty boring just looking at a blank screen w/ no feedback.

I'd like to suggest a new feature of the SQLi libraries where there is a configurable percentage for feedback.
So for instance, it defaults to 10 (aka every 10% completed, give feedback on progress).

Output would look similar to the command stagers:

[*] SQLi progress -  10% done (40/400 characters)
[*] SQLi progress -  20% done (80/400 characters)

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