Re: [RFC] Redoing Ncat's Proxy Options

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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On 10/10/2008 02:47 PM, Dirk Loss wrote:
> Hi Kris,

Hey Dirk,

> I really like your ideas for redoing Ncat's proxy options:

Awesome :)

> > Sounds good to me.  I actually prefer defaulting to HTTP, but I figured more
> > people used SOCKS so defaulting to that would be better.
>
> I have no real preference on whether to use SOCKS5 or HTTP as the default.

I thought of another reason why defaulting to HTTP could be better: the server
part.  Since the only proxy server currently available is HTTP, only -lX is
needed to use it.

> But I would prefer the parameters 'socks4' and 'socks5' over '4' and 
> '5'. IMHO the longer forms are more readable, more consistent with 
> 'http' and therefore easier to remember. Moreover, I think "-X socks5" 
> is quite self-documenting while "-X 5" is not. And 'socks4' and 'socks5' 
> are still quite short and easy to type.

Fair enough, I suppose having them both can't hurt any.

> >   -x, --proxy
> >   -X, --proxy-type
> >   -P, --proxy-auth
>
> IMHO that's a good idea. I don't really like the "user:pass@" style or 
> something like "--x-auth".

Cool, I'll probably stick to that then.  Oh, but have a look at [1] if you can
since I kinda forgot about the existing -x option... :)

> > It's just that mixing the short forms with --proxy-auth, or the long forms
> > with --x-auth, don't go well together IMO,
>
> I guess most people will either use the long forms or the short forms, 
> so that would be no real issue.

Oh, I was actually just referring to the idea of having just the short option
names -x and -X (not --proxy, etc) and a long --x-auth (no -P) or whatever. So
yeah, having them all available is better in this respect.

> Regards
> Dirk

Thanks!,
Kris Katterjohn

[1] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q4/0163.html

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