Re: [NSE][RFC] Transparent support for HTTP Content-Encoding

[nnposter <nnposter () users sourceforge net>]

On 2/23/19 2:10 PM, nnposter wrote:
> At present the NSE implementation of HTTP does not provide means to 
> obtain an HTTP response body processed in accordance with header 
> Content-Encoding. Scripts are unable to deal with compressed responses, 
> unless making one-off effort on their own, which none of them currently do.
>
> I am proposing to modify the http.lua library behavior to return the 
> response body after it has been already decoded.
>
> More at https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1493
> Please review the proposal and comment.

FYI, the code has been committed in r37627.
HTTP responses compressed with gzip are now returned decoded/inflated.
See https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/1571 for details.

Cheers,
nnposter
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