Nmap Development: Re: Nmap NSE: Bad Behaviour

[bensonk () acm wwu edu]

I'd like to suggest picking a user-agent and sticking with it unless
it's specifically overridden.  There are a lot of people out there
breaking the HTTP protocol, and I don't see any reason for nmap to be
one of them.  Specifying a user-agent on the command line or
specifically in a script is one thing, but I'd like to see the "right" 
user-agent unless it's explicitly asked that we not.  Web servers may
provide different results based on user-agent, so I think picking random
ones would lead to nondeterministic scan results, which seems like a bad
plan to me.  Does that sound reasonable?

Benson

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:37:41AM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
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> > What about adding a function to the HTTP library to return a random user
> > agent?  There can be a table of, say, 8-10 user agents ranging from IE to
> > Firefox to Opera and with different OS's in the information.  And maybe a
> > generic name can be passed to the function to grab a specific browser's
> > user-agent data, like http.get_user_agent("Firefox") (although maybe that's
> > going overboard).
> >
> > Then the HTTP library can use it, and anybody else using HTTP, but not the
> > library, can get it too.
> Wow, that sounded really stupid :) I meant to say anybody not using the
> library to build/send the HTTP data, like my HTTPtrace.nse for instance.
>
> Thanks,
> Kris Katterjohn
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