From 928de03d3d7dc7ce4c3eeb7d751e6d6954229fd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fyodor Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:04:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more updates from NSE meeting, plus a way to further de-bloat the Nmap tarball --- docs/TODO | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO index 7394e5de7..7ec707c86 100644 --- a/docs/TODO +++ b/docs/TODO @@ -59,14 +59,19 @@ o Add scripting.xml documentation on strict.lua and the avoidance of section just above "Adding C Modules to "Nselib", such as "Writing Your Own Library" or somesuch. [Patrick] +o Update nsedoc to refer to 'libraries' rather than 'modules'. This + affects the front page (which calls them 'Libraries' on left sidebar + and 'Modules' on the list of right, and affects the url (we should + change /modules/ to /lib/ and then have Fyodor add a redirect for + people still using old URLs) and the title of the module pages like + http://nmap.org/nsedoc/modules/base64.html. [Patrick] + o Consider the open proxy scripts more carefully - How should we test whether the proxy attempt was successful? Right now we look for a google-specific Server header after trying to reach http://www.google.com through the proxy. Maybe we should let users specify their own pattern if they specify their own URL. - [ Joao is done with changes for http-open-proxy and - socks-open-proxy, will send to nmap-dev today (7/21) for review and - then check in a few days later] + [ Joao is going to check it in today (7/28)] o Add PJL (Printer Job Language) probes to nmap-service-probes. Brandon wrote some in @@ -131,6 +136,18 @@ o Change Nsock so that it is able to take advantage of more modern should do some benchmarking and decide on the interface to use for each platform. [David/SoC] +o The Nmap 5.00 tarball contains: + -rw-r--r-- fyodor/fyodor 122943 2009-06-24 14:35 nmap-5.00/docs/scripting.xml + -rw-r--r-- fyodor/fyodor 151 2009-06-24 14:35 nmap-5.00/docs/nmap-usage.xml + -rw-r--r-- fyodor/fyodor 604 2009-06-24 14:35 nmap-5.00/docs/nmap-man-enclosure.xml + -rw-r--r-- fyodor/fyodor 76918 2009-06-24 14:35 nmap-5.00/docs/nmap-install.xml + -rw-r--r-- fyodor/fyodor 10179 2009-06-24 14:35 nmap-5.00/docs/legal-notices.xml + If we're going to include the XML source files, we should include + reguide too. But rather than add that, we should probably take + these out. After all, people can easily grab them from svn or our + new http svn gateway if desired. So no need to bloat the tarball + with these files which aren't installed. + o Scanning through proxies o Nmap should be able to scan through proxy servers, particularly now that we have an NSE script for detectiong open proxies and now that