Re: Draft for hosted cgi

["Julien Delange" <julien.delange () gmail com>]

2006/5/25, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo () buanzo com ar>:
> I don't see how that is not possible. Please, tell me. We may work out a
> new approach. And I've
> promised Fyodor I'll help you in everything I can :)




In fact, if apache invokes nmap directly, it hangs the apache thread or
process. The web-browser of the user will hang and will wait for the scan.
It's probably not what we expect. If you make N scans at the same time, you
will get N threads/processes waiting for the nmap process. It is a very bad
idea and is not optimized. More, if apache launches the scans, how does it
know if he has scheduled scans to perform ?

With the daemon, it makes requests on the database every 10 seconds (for
example) to know if it has to perform scans. He make forks() and launch one
scan per fork(), and finally store the results in an XML file. It's simple,
clean and efficient.


If you use any IM, let me know.


Yeah, I use jabber (julien () gunnm org), but I don't use it very often.


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