Nmap Development: Re: [Patch] Banner Grabbing Stdout and XML

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:31 -0400, Joshua D. Abraham wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I have attached a patch that adds banner grabbing functionality to Nmap.
>   Basically, it is using the response of the version detection probe.
> Therefore, to output to STDOUT the user needs to set 5 verbose flags and
> for XML they need only one.
>
> Currently, I have limited the size of the banner to limited to 128
> characters.
>
> If anyone has any comments that would be great.
>
> Regards,
> Joshua Abraham
>
> P.S. I worked on these patches along with a friend of mine, named Gil.
You patch adds a <banner>sometext</banner> tag to the XML output.  All
other XML output does not use text but rather CDATA attributes.  You may
want to add banner="..." as an attribute to the service element instead.

Other than that, excellent addition; I'll find it very useful and will
probably ditch Amap.

Brandon

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