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some priority reordering of NSE items in TODO list

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@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ o [NSE] Consider whether we need script.db for performance reasons at
all or should just read through all the scripts and parse on the fly.
See: [http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q2/0221.html]
o [NSE] We may want to consider a better exception handling method --
one which doesn't require wrapping every I/O line in its own try
function call. David says "Lua has an internal "exception handling"
mechanism based on a function called pcall, which is implemented
with setjmp/longjmp. ou can wrap a function call in it and the
function will return there whenever there's an unhandled error.
Something based on that would be better [than the current system], I
think."
o [NSE] Make NSE work better for SSL tunneled services in general by
supporting them easily in the libraries. For example, I don't think
@@ -170,15 +178,6 @@ o [NSE] Open proxy detection script
that to handle other types of proxies (such as SOCKS and HTTP
CONNECT) or create more scripts to handle those other proxy types.
o [NSE] We may want to consider a better exception handling method --
one which doesn't require wrapping every I/O line in its own try
function call. David says "Lua has an internal "exception handling"
mechanism based on a function called pcall, which is implemented
with setjmp/longjmp. ou can wrap a function call in it and the
function will return there whenever there's an unhandled error.
Something based on that would be better [than the current system], I
think."
o [NSE] Would be great if NSE scripts could be made to NOT
run as root if they don't have to.