Nmap Development: Re: NMAP XML reports unreadable in linux

["Brandon Enright" <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

HG wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for nmap - been using it somewhat lately (to check the security
> of the sites that I'm responsible for).
>
> One thing, I just got rid of my windows box... which seemed to be the
> only way to read the XML reports NMAP 4.11 (on SUSE 10.0) creates
> (using --webxml). On linux, I have tried to following browsers:
>  - Opera 9.0 (and 8.xx)
>  - Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 (and versions upto it)
>  - Konqueror 3.5.3 (and earlier versions)
>
> But it seems that the report is somehow broken as none of those show
> anything (just a blank page), while the IE on windows would show and print
> the report correctly.
>
> Is there some way I could load up the report on linux? I could not
> find anything useful with Google.
>
> --
> HG.
For Firefox I believe you're running into an undocumented(?) security
feature that prevents an XSL stylesheet from being loaded from a remote
server.  I can't speak for the other browsers.

Put the XSL stylesheet on the same webserver as the XML files and change
the <?xml-stylesheet href="/usr/local/share/nmap/nmap.xsl"
type="text/xsl"?> tag to point to the corret FQDN.  Also make sure that
the content-type of the XSL file is is text/xsl or text/xml.

Your XML files should be properly rendered again once you point at a local
XSL source.

Brandon




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