From 96e17c4f6394459eac0ea70c3d397a47154b13c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nnposter <nnposter@e0a8ed71-7df4-0310-8962-fdc924857419>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:15:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent potential nil dereference. Fixes #1885

---
 nselib/http.lua | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/nselib/http.lua b/nselib/http.lua
index 1c3f838a3..dde9f0fb2 100644
--- a/nselib/http.lua
+++ b/nselib/http.lua
@@ -1787,6 +1787,7 @@ function get_url( u, options )
   if(not(validate_options(options))) then
     return http_error("Options failed to validate.")
   end
+  options = options or {}
   local parsed = url.parse( u )
   local port = {}