Scripts no longer need to implement caching of datafiles tables in the
registry, since the datafiles.lua library keeps its own cache in the
registry. A side-effect is that scripts should not change the tables
returned by datafiles.parse_{protocols,rpc,services,mac_prefixes}(), as
doing so will affect all other scripts that use those functions.
Often two (or more) scripts using the same library would
overwrite the globals each was using. This would result
in (at best) an error or (at worst) a deadlock.
The patch changes the global accesses to local.
license" to "Same as Nmap--See http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html" like
scripts commonly use. I added the field to some modules I know to be under the
Nmap license: bin, datafiles, dns, nmap, unpwdb. I left alone bin, bit, pcre,
and url, which come from outside sources.
INFO processing file `nselib/datafiles.lua'
ERROR undefined handler for tag `type'
INFO processing file `nselib/dns.lua'
ERROR undefined handler for tag `result'
ERROR undefined handler for tag `result'
INFO processing file `nselib/netbios.lua'
ERROR undefined handler for tag `returns'
INFO processing file `nselib/snmp.lua'
ERROR undefined handler for tag `result'
INFO processing file `scripts/SSLv2-support.nse'
ERROR undefined handler for tag `ouput'
Removed a @see tag which refers to Lua's string.format rather than to NSE docs:
INFO generating file `docs/modules/stdnse.html'
ERROR unresolved reference to symbol `string.format'
http, ipOps, listop, and match. This is mainly merging the best documentation
from the module source and scripting.xml into the module, with the aim of
making the source code the canonical source for module documentation.
- not returning services in the same fashion as parse_services(protocol) did
- bad logic prevented parse_file( filename, { } ) from returning an array
of lines where filename was one of Nmap's data files (as it does for
other files)
- creating a table key with a value of nil when the pattern for the key
matches, but the pattern for the value doesn't - this was made most
obvious by the recent changes as it prevented them returning the correct
data
the parsing of the standard nmap data files (e.g. nmap-services,
nmap-protocols, etc.) now uses those generic routines. NSE scripts
and libraries may find them useful for dealing with their own data
files, such as password lists. [Jah]
