Nmap Development: Re: suggestion for nse / script category

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:43:14PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> When I am running nmap inside my corporate network, the scripts that
> try to pull data from (such as the RIPE query) don't work.
>
> My Internet access is through a non-transparent proxy server that
> requires authentication.
>
> I don't know if there should be a category to specify scripts that
> require Internet access or some sort of lookup capability or if there
> should be a way to script up some proxy credentials instead.
Hi Jason.  Interesting use case.  For certain types of Internet
access, such as HTTP requests, I think it would make a lot of sense to
have standard library calls for such common requests.  And those
libraries could honor proxy-related variables if they are set.  We
could do a similar thing for passing in general authentication
credentials for scripts which require them.

Cheers,
-F

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