[BUG] -n (no-recursion) option fails to list base-level directories

[bycszzz]

Describe the bug
When running Feroxbuster with the -n (no-recursion) option, the tool does not list any directories at the base level. According to the documentation, -n should prevent scanning deeper levels but still display the discovered directories at the current depth. Instead, it reports “found:0,” which seems incorrect since there are directories that exist and can be discovered when not using the -n option.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Run Feroxbuster with the -n option on a target that contains known directories:

feroxbuster -n -u http://10.10.10.48

2.	Observe the output—no directories are listed (e.g., “found:0”).
3.	Compare the result to running the same command without the -n option:

feroxbuster -u http://10.10.10.48

In this scenario, directories (e.g., /admin/, /admin/scripts/, /admin/img/) are discovered correctly.

Expected behavior
Using the -n (no-recursion) option should list the discovered directories at the current depth without descending into them. The tool should not skip them entirely.

Environment (please complete the following information):
• feroxbuster version: v2.11.0
• OS: [macOS orbstack kali ]

Additional context
Below are partial logs showing the difference:

• With -n:

[>-------------------] - 6s      1356/30000   3m      found:0       errors:0      
[>-------------------] - 6s      1403/30000   3m      found:0       errors:0      

• Without -n:

[>-------------------] - 1s       192/30000   152/s   http://10.10.10.48/admin/
[>-------------------] - 1s        29/30000   45/s    http://10.10.10.48/admin/scripts/
[>-------------------] - 1s        44/30000   68/s    http://10.10.10.48/admin/img/

Thank you for looking into this issue! If you need any additional details or logs, please let me know.

[epi052]

howdy, and thanks for the submission!

I don't see it in the screenshot, but want to confirm: you didn't see a message similar to the following?

[####################] - 1s      4736/4736    3686/s  http://127.1:8001/ => Directory listing (add --scan-dir-listings to scan)

I'm going to assume you didn't and take a look at this behavior, but wanted to ask in the meantime. Thanks!

[epi052]

oh, i took a look at your options, and you're only allowing 200 and 500 responses to be processed. Do the directories respond with a 200? If they return a 301 or similar, they'll be filtered out before being shown. Below is an example where no recursion is used, but the redirect code is also an allowed status code.

epi@main:~/projects/feroxbuster$ cargo run  -- -w ~/wordlists/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt -u http://127.1:8001  -s 200,500,308 -n 
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.07s
     Running `target/debug/feroxbuster -w /home/epi/wordlists/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt -u 'http://127.1:8001' -s 200,500,308 -n`

 ___  ___  __   __     __      __         __   ___
|__  |__  |__) |__) | /  `    /  \ \_/ | |  \ |__
|    |___ |  \ |  \ | \__,    \__/ / \ | |__/ |___
by Ben "epi" Risher 🤓                 ver: 2.11.0
───────────────────────────┬──────────────────────
 🎯  Target Url            │ http://127.1:8001
 🚀  Threads               │ 50
 📖  Wordlist              │ /home/epi/wordlists/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt
 👌  Status Codes          │ [200, 500, 308]
 💥  Timeout (secs)        │ 7
 🦡  User-Agent            │ feroxbuster/2.11.0
 💉  Config File           │ /home/epi/projects/feroxbuster/ferox-config.toml
 🔎  Extract Links         │ true
 🏁  HTTP methods          │ [GET]
 🚫  Do Not Recurse        │ true
───────────────────────────┴──────────────────────
 🏁  Press [ENTER] to use the Scan Management Menu™
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
200      GET       35l      101w      681c http://127.0.0.1:8001/.gitignore
200      GET       70l      304w    22613c http://127.0.0.1:8001/.git/index
200      GET        1l        2w       21c http://127.0.0.1:8001/.git/HEAD
200      GET      414l     1104w    14457c http://127.0.0.1:8001/.git/config
200      GET       80l      201w     2151c http://127.0.0.1:8001/Makefile
200      GET       21l      168w     1065c http://127.0.0.1:8001/LICENSE
308      GET        2l        3w       42c http://127.0.0.1:8001/docs => http://127.0.0.1:8001/docs/
[####################] - 1s      4739/4739    0s      found:7       errors:0      
[####################] - 1s      4736/4736    7470/s  http://127.1:8001/