nmap/nselib/httpspider.lua

---
-- A smallish httpspider library providing basic spidering capabilities
-- It consists of the following classes:
--
-- * <code>Options</code>
-- ** This class is responsible for handling library options.
--
-- * <code>LinkExtractor</code>
-- ** This class contains code responsible for extracting urls from web pages.
--
-- * <code>URL</code>
-- ** This class contains code to parse and process URLs.
--
-- * <code>UrlQueue</code>
-- ** This class contains a queue of the next links to process.
--
-- * <code>Crawler</code>
-- ** This class is responsible for the actual crawling.
-- 
-- The following sample code shows how the spider could be used:
-- <code>
--   local crawler = httpspider.Crawler:new( host, port, '/', { scriptname = SCRIPT_NAME } )
--   crawler:set_timeout(10000)
--
--   local result
--   while(true) do
--     local status, r = crawler:crawl()
--     if ( not(status) ) then
--       break
--     end
--     if ( r.response.body:match(str_match) ) then
--        crawler:stop()
--        result = r.url
--        break
--     end
--   end
--
--   return result
-- </code>
--
-- @author Patrik Karlsson <patrik@cqure.net>
-- 
-- @args httpspider.maxdepth the maximum amount of directories beneath
--       the initial url to spider. A negative value disables the limit.
--       (default: 3)
-- @args httpspider.maxpagecount the maximum amount of pages to visit.
--       A negative value disables the limit (default: 20)
-- @args httpspider.url the url to start spidering. This is a URL
--       relative to the scanned host eg. /default.html (default: /)
-- @args httpspider.withinhost only spider URLs within the same host.
--       (default: true)
-- @args httpspider.withindomain only spider URLs within the same
--       domain. This widens the scope from <code>withinhost</code> and can
--       not be used in combination. (default: false)
-- @args httpspider.noblacklist if set, doesn't load the default blacklist
-- @args httpspider.useheadfornonwebfiles if set, the crawler would use
--       HEAD instead of GET for files that do not have extensions indicating
--       that they are webpages (the list of webpage extensions is located in
--       nselib/data/http-web-files-extensions.lst)
--

local coroutine = require "coroutine"
local http = require "http"
local io = require "io"
local nmap = require "nmap"
local stdnse = require "stdnse"
local string = require "string"
local table = require "table"
local url = require "url"
_ENV = stdnse.module("httpspider", stdnse.seeall)

local LIBRARY_NAME = "httpspider"
local PREFETCH_SIZE = 5

-- The Options class, handling all spidering options
Options = {
	
	new = function(self, options)
		local o = {	}
		
		-- copy all options as class members
		for k, v in pairs(options) do o[k] = v	end

		-- set a few default values
		o.timeout  = options.timeout or 10000
		o.whitelist = o.whitelist or {}
		o.blacklist = o.blacklist or {}
    local removewww = function(url) string.gsub(url, "^www%.", "") end
		
		if ( o.withinhost == true or o.withindomain == true ) then
			-- set up the appropriate matching functions
			if ( o.withinhost ) then
				o.withinhost = function(u)
					local parsed_u = url.parse(tostring(u))
													
					if ( o.base_url:getPort() ~= 80 and o.base_url:getPort() ~= 443 ) then
						if ( tonumber(parsed_u.port) ~= tonumber(o.base_url:getPort()) ) then
							return false
						end
					elseif ( parsed_u.scheme ~= o.base_url:getProto() ) then
						return false
				  -- if urls don't match only on the "www" prefix, then they are probably the same
					elseif ( parsed_u.host == nil or removewww(parsed_u.host:lower()) ~= removewww(o.base_url:getHost():lower()) ) then
						return false
					end
					return true
				end
			else
				o.withindomain = function(u)
					local parsed_u = url.parse(tostring(u))				
					if ( o.base_url:getPort() ~= 80 and o.base_url:getPort() ~= 443 ) then
						if ( tonumber(parsed_u.port) ~= tonumber(o.base_url:getPort()) ) then
							return false
						end
					elseif ( parsed_u.scheme ~= o.base_url:getProto() ) then
						return false
					elseif ( parsed_u.host == nil or parsed_u.host:sub(-#o.base_url:getDomain()):lower() ~= o.base_url:getDomain():lower() ) then
						return false
					end
					return true
				end
			end
		end
		setmetatable(o, self)
		self.__index = self
		return o
	end,
	
	addWhitelist = function(self, func) table.insert(self.whitelist, func) end,
	addBlacklist = function(self, func) table.insert(self.blacklist, func) end,

}

-- Placeholder for form extraction code
FormExtractor = {
	
}

LinkExtractor = {
	
	-- Creates a new instance of LinkExtractor
	-- @return o instance of LinkExtractor
	new = function(self, url, html, options)
		local o = {
			url = url,
			html = html,
			links = {},
			options = options,
		}
		setmetatable(o, self)
		self.__index = self
		o:parse()
		return o
	end,
	
	-- is the link absolute or not?
	isAbsolute = function(url)
		-- at this point we don't care about the protocol
		-- also, we don't add // to cover stuff like:
		-- feed:http://example.com/rss.xml
		return ( url:match('^%w*:') ~= nil )
	end,
	
	-- Creates an absolute link from a relative one based on the base_url
	-- The functionality is very simple and does not take any ../../ in
	-- consideration.
	--
	-- @param base_url URL containing the page url from which the links were
	--        extracted
	-- @param rel_url string containing the relative portion of the URL
	-- @return link string containing the absolute link
	createAbsolute = function(base_url, rel_url, base_href)

		-- is relative with leading slash? ie /dir1/foo.html
		local leading_slash = rel_url:match("^/")
		rel_url = rel_url:match("^/?(.*)") or '/'

		-- check for tailing slash
		if ( base_href and not(base_href:match("/$") ) ) then
			base_href = base_href .. '/'
		end

		if ( ( base_url:getProto() == 'https' and base_url:getPort() == 443 ) or
			 ( base_url:getProto() == 'http' and base_url:getPort() == 80 ) ) then
			
			if ( leading_slash ) then
				return ("%s://%s/%s"):format(base_url:getProto(), base_url:getHost(), rel_url)
			else
				if ( base_href ) then
					return ("%s%s"):format(base_href, rel_url)
				else
					return ("%s://%s%s%s"):format(base_url:getProto(), base_url:getHost(), base_url:getDir(), rel_url)
				end
			end
		else
			if ( leading_slash ) then
				return ("%s://%s:%d/%s"):format(base_url:getProto(), base_url:getHost(), base_url:getPort(), rel_url)
			else
				if ( base_href ) then
					return ("%s%s"):format(base_href, rel_url)
				else
					return ("%s://%s:%d%s%s"):format(base_url:getProto(), base_url:getHost(), base_href or base_url:getPort(), base_url:getDir(), rel_url)
				end
			end
		end
	end,
	
	-- Gets the depth of the link, relative to our base url eg.
	-- base_url = http://www.cqure.net/wp/
	-- url = http://www.cqure.net/wp/ 							- depth: 0
	-- url = http://www.cqure.net/wp/index.php 					- depth: 0
	-- url = http://www.cqure.net/wp/2011/index.php				- depth: 1
	-- url = http://www.cqure.net/index.html					- depth: -1
	--
	-- @param url instance of URL
	-- @return depth number containing the depth relative to the base_url
	getDepth = function(self, url)
		local base_dir, url_dir = self.options.base_url:getDir(), url:getDir()
		if ( url_dir and base_dir ) then
			local m = url_dir:match(base_dir.."(.*)")
			if ( not(m) ) then
				return -1
			else
				local _, depth = m:gsub("/", "/")
				return depth
			end
		end
	end,
	
  	validate_link = function(self, url)
		local valid = true

		-- if our url is nil, abort, this could be due to a number of
		-- reasons such as unsupported protocols: javascript, mail ... or
		-- that the URL failed to parse for some reason
		if ( url == nil or tostring(url) == nil ) then
			return false
		end

		-- linkdepth trumps whitelisting
		if ( self.options.maxdepth and self.options.maxdepth >= 0 ) then
			local depth = self:getDepth( url )
			if ( -1 == depth or depth > self.options.maxdepth ) then
				stdnse.print_debug(3, "%s: Skipping link depth: %d; b_url=%s; url=%s", LIBRARY_NAME, depth, tostring(self.options.base_url), tostring(url))
				return false
			end		
		end

		-- withindomain trumps any whitelisting
		if ( self.options.withindomain ) then
			if ( not(self.options.withindomain(url)) ) then
				stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Link is not within domain: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, tostring(url))
				return false
			end
		end

		-- withinhost trumps any whitelisting
		if ( self.options.withinhost ) then
			if ( not(self.options.withinhost(url)) ) then
				stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Link is not within host: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, tostring(url))
				return false
			end
		end

		-- run through all blacklists	
		if ( #self.options.blacklist > 0 ) then
			for _, func in ipairs(self.options.blacklist) do
				if ( func(url) ) then
					stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Blacklist match: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, tostring(url))
					valid = false
					break
				end
			end
		end

		-- check the url against our whitelist
		if ( #self.options.whitelist > 0 ) then
			for _, func in ipairs(self.options.whitelist) do
				if ( func(url) ) then
					stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Whitelist match: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, tostring(url))
					valid = true
					break
				end
			end
		end
		return valid
  	end,

	-- Parses a HTML response and extracts all links it can find
	-- The function currently supports href, src and action links
	-- Also all behaviour options, such as depth, white- and black-list are
	-- processed in here.
	parse = function(self)
		local links = {}
		local patterns = {
			'[hH][rR][eE][fF]%s*=%s*[\'"]%s*([^"^\']-)%s*[\'"]',
			'[hH][rR][eE][fF]%s*=%s*([^\'\"][^%s>]+)',
			'[sS][rR][cC]%s*=%s*[\'"]%s*([^"^\']-)%s*[\'"]',
			'[sS][rR][cC]%s*=%s*([^\'\"][^%s>]+)',
			'[aA][cC][tT][iI][oO][nN]%s*=%s*[\'"]%s*([^"^\']+%s*)[\'"]',
		}
		
		local base_hrefs = {
			'[Bb][Aa][Ss][Ee]%s*[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]%s*=%s*[\'"](%s*[^"^\']+%s*)[\'"]',
			'[Bb][Aa][Ss][Ee]%s*[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]%s*=%s*([^\'\"][^%s>]+)'
		}
		
		local base_href
		for _, pattern in ipairs(base_hrefs) do
			base_href = self.html:match(pattern)
			if ( base_href ) then
				break
			end
		end

		for _, pattern in ipairs(patterns) do
			for l in self.html:gmatch(pattern) do
				local link = l
				if ( not(LinkExtractor.isAbsolute(l)) ) then
					link = LinkExtractor.createAbsolute(self.url, l, base_href)
				end
				
				local url = URL:new(link)
				
				local valid = self:validate_link(url)
				
				if ( valid ) then
					stdnse.print_debug(3, "%s: Adding link: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, tostring(url))
					links[tostring(url)] = true
				elseif ( tostring(url) ) then
					stdnse.print_debug(3, "%s: Skipping url: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, link)
				end
			end
		end
	  	
		for link in pairs(links) do
			table.insert(self.links, link)
		end
	
	end,

	-- Gets a table containing all of the retrieved URLs, after filtering
	-- has been applied.
	getLinks = function(self) return self.links end,
	
	
}

-- The URL class, containing code to process URLS
-- This class is heavily inspired by the Java URL class
URL = {
	
	-- Creates a new instance of URL
	-- @param url string containing the text representation of a URL
	-- @return o instance of URL, in case of parsing being successful
	--         nil in case parsing fails
	new = function(self, url)
		local o = {
			raw = url,
		}
				
		setmetatable(o, self)
		self.__index = self
		if ( o:parse() ) then
			return o
		end
	end,
	
	-- Parses the string representation of the URL and splits it into different
	-- URL components
	-- @return status true on success, false on failure
	parse = function(self)
		self.proto, self.host, self.port, self.file = self.raw:match("^(http[s]?)://([^:/]*)[:]?(%d*)")
		if ( self.proto and self.host ) then
			self.file = self.raw:match("^http[s]?://[^:/]*[:]?%d*(/[^#]*)") or '/'
			self.port = tonumber(self.port)
			if ( not(self.port) ) then
				if ( self.proto:match("https") ) then
					self.port = 443 
				elseif ( self.proto:match("http")) then
					self.port = 80
				end
			end
			
			self.path  = self.file:match("^([^?]*)[%?]?")
			self.dir   = self.path:match("^(.+%/)") or "/"
			self.domain= self.host:match("^[^%.]-%.(.*)")			
			return true
		elseif( self.raw:match("^javascript:") ) then
			stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Skipping javascript url: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, self.raw)
		elseif( self.raw:match("^mailto:") ) then
			stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Skipping mailto link: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, self.raw)
		else
			stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: WARNING: Failed to parse url: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, self.raw)
		end
		return false
	end,
	
	-- Get's the host portion of the URL
	-- @return host string containing the hostname
	getHost = function(self) return self.host end,
	
	-- Get's the protocol representation of the URL
	-- @return proto string containing the protocol (ie. http, https)
	getProto = function(self) return self.proto end,
	
	-- Returns the filename component of the URL. 
	-- @return file string containing the path and query components of the url
	getFile = function(self) return self.file end,
	
	-- Gets the port component of the URL
	-- @return port number containing the port of the URL
	getPort = function(self) return self.port end,
	
	-- Gets the path component of the URL
	-- @return the full path and filename of the URL
	getPath = function(self) return self.path end,
	
	-- Gets the directory component of the URL
	-- @return directory string containing the directory part of the URL 
	getDir  = function(self) return self.dir end,
	
	-- Gets the domain component of the URL
	-- @return domain string containing the hosts domain
	getDomain = function(self)
		if ( self.domain ) then
			return self.domain 
		-- fallback to the host, if we can't find a domain
		else
			return self.host
		end
	end,
	
	-- Converts the URL to a string
	-- @return url string containing the string representation of the url
	__tostring = function(self) return self.raw end,
}

-- An UrlQueue
UrlQueue = {
	
	-- creates a new instance of UrlQueue
	-- @param options table containing options
	-- @return o new instance of UrlQueue
	new = function(self, options)
		local o = { 
			urls = {},
			options = options
		}
		setmetatable(o, self)
		self.__index = self
		return o
	end,
	
	-- get's the next available url in the queue
	getNext = function(self)
		return table.remove(self.urls,1)
	end,
	
	-- adds a new url to the queue
	-- @param url can be either a string or a URL or a table of URLs
	add = function(self, url)
		assert( type(url) == 'string' or type(url) == 'table', "url was neither a string or table")
		local urls = ( 'string' == type(url) ) and URL:new(url) or url
		
		-- if it's a table, it can be either a single URL or an array of URLs
		if ( 'table' == type(url) and url.raw ) then
			urls = { url }
		end
		
		for _, u in ipairs(urls) do
			u = ( 'string' == type(u) ) and URL:new(u) or u
			if ( u ) then
				table.insert(self.urls, u)
			else
				stdnse.print_debug("ERROR: Invalid URL: %s", url)
			end
		end
	end,
	
	-- dumps the contents of the UrlQueue
	dump = function(self)
		for _, url in ipairs(self.urls) do
			print("url:", url)
		end
	end,
	
}

-- The Crawler class
Crawler = {
	
	-- creates a new instance of the Crawler instance
	-- @param host table as received by the action method
	-- @param port table as received by the action method
	-- @param url string containing the relative URL
	-- @param options table of options:
	--        <code>noblacklist</code> - do not load default blacklist
	--        <code>base_url</code> - start url to crawl
	--        <code>timeout</code> - timeout for the http request
	--        <code>maxdepth</code> - the maximum directory depth to crawl
	--        <code>maxpagecount</code> - the maximum amount of pages to retrieve
	--        <code>withinhost</code> - stay within the host of the base_url
	--        <code>withindomain</code> - stay within the base_url domain
	--        <code>scriptname</code> - should be set to SCRIPT_NAME to enable
	--                                  script specific arguments.
	--        <code>redirect_ok</code> - redirect_ok closure to pass to http.get function
	-- @return o new instance of Crawler or nil on failure
	new = function(self, host, port, url, options)
		local o = {
			host = host,
			port = port,
			url = url,
			options = options or {},
			basethread = stdnse.base(),
		}

		setmetatable(o, self)
		self.__index = self

		o:loadScriptArguments()
		o:loadLibraryArguments()
		o:loadDefaultArguments()

		local response = http.get(o.host, o.port, '/', { timeout = o.options.timeout, redirect_ok = o.options.redirect_ok } )
		
		if ( not(response) or 'table' ~= type(response) ) then
			return
		end
		
		o.url = o.url:match("/?(.*)")
		
		local u_host = o.host.targetname or o.host.name
		if ( not(u_host) or 0 == #u_host ) then
			u_host = o.host.ip
		end
		local u = ("%s://%s:%d/%s"):format(response.ssl and "https" or "http", u_host, o.port.number, o.url)
		o.options.base_url = URL:new(u)
		o.options = Options:new(o.options)
		o.urlqueue = UrlQueue:new(o.options)
		o.urlqueue:add(o.options.base_url)

		o.options.timeout = o.options.timeout or 10000
		o.processed = {}
		
		-- script arguments have precedense
		if ( not(o.options.maxdepth) ) then
			o.options.maxdepth = tonumber(stdnse.get_script_args("httpspider.maxdepth"))
		end
		
		-- script arguments have precedense
		if ( not(o.options.maxpagecount) ) then
			o.options.maxpagecount = tonumber(stdnse.get_script_args("httpspider.maxpagecount"))
		end
		
		if ( not(o.options.noblacklist) ) then
			o:addDefaultBlacklist()
		end

    if ( o.options.useheadfornonwebfiles ) then
      -- Load web files extensitons from a file in nselib/data folder.
      -- For more information on individual file formats, see
      -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats.
      o.web_files_extensions = {}
      local f = nmap.fetchfile("nselib/data/http-web-files-extensions.lst")
      if f then
        for l in io.lines(f) do
          table.insert(o.web_files_extensions, l)
        end
      end
    end
		
		stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, o:getLimitations())
		
		return o
	end,
	
	-- Set's the timeout used by the http library
	-- @param timeout number containing the timeout in ms.
	set_timeout = function(self, timeout)
		self.options.timeout = timeout
	end,
		
	-- Get's the amount of pages that has been retrieved
	-- @return count number of pages retrieved by the instance
	getPageCount = function(self)
		local count = 1
		for url in pairs(self.processed) do
			count = count + 1
		end
		return count
	end,
	
	-- Adds a default blacklist blocking binary files such as images,
	-- compressed archives and executable files
	addDefaultBlacklist = function(self)
		local extensions = {
			image_extensions = {"png","jpg","jpeg","gif","bmp"},
			video_extensions = {"avi","flv","ogg","mp4","wmv"},
			audio_extensions = {"aac","m4a","mp3","wav"},
			doc_extensions = {"pdf", "doc", "docx", "docm", "xls", "xlsx", "xlsm",
				"ppt", "pptx", "pptm", "odf", "ods", "odp", "ps", "xps"},
			archive_extensions = {"zip", "tar.gz", "gz", "rar", "7z", "sit", "sitx",
				"tgz", "tar.bz", "tar", "iso"},
			exe_extensions = {"exe", "com", "msi", "bin","dmg"}
		}
		local blacklist = {}
		for _, cat in pairs(extensions) do
			for _, ext in ipairs(cat) do
				table.insert(blacklist, string.format(".%s$", ext))
			end
		end

		self.options:addBlacklist( function(url)
			local p = url:getPath():lower()
			for _, pat in ipairs(blacklist) do
				if ( p:match(pat) ) then
					return true
				end
			end
		end )
	end,
	
	-- does the heavy crawling
	--
	-- The crawler may exit due to a number of different reasons, including
	-- invalid options, reaching max count or simply running out of links
	-- We return a false status for all of these and in case the error was
	-- unexpected or requires attention we set the error property accordingly.
	-- This way the script can alert the user of the details by calling
	-- getError()
	crawl_thread = function(self, response_queue)
		local condvar = nmap.condvar(response_queue)

		if ( false ~= self.options.withinhost and false ~= self.options.withindomain ) then
			table.insert(response_queue, { false, { err = true, reason = "Invalid options: withinhost and withindomain can't both be true" } })
			condvar "signal"
			return
		end

		while(true) do
			
			if ( self.quit or coroutine.status(self.basethread) == 'dead'  ) then
				table.insert(response_queue, {false, { err = false, msg = "Quit signalled by crawler" } })
				break
			end
			
			-- in case the user set a max page count to retrieve check how many
			-- pages we have retrieved so far
			local count = self:getPageCount()
			if ( self.options.maxpagecount and
				 ( count > self.options.maxpagecount ) ) then
				table.insert(response_queue, { false, { err = false, msg = "Reached max page count" } })
				condvar "signal"
				return
			end
		
			-- pull links from the queue until we get a valid one
			local url
			repeat
				url = self.urlqueue:getNext()
			until( not(url) or not(self.processed[tostring(url)]) )

			-- if no url could be retrieved from the queue, abort ...
			if ( not(url) ) then
				table.insert(response_queue, { false, { err = false, msg = "No more urls" } })
				condvar "signal"
				return
			end
		  
			if ( self.options.maxpagecount ) then
				stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Fetching url [%d of %d]: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, count, self.options.maxpagecount, tostring(url))
			else
				stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Fetching url: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, tostring(url))
			end
      
      local response
      -- in case we want to use HEAD rather than GET for files with certain extensions
      if ( self.options.useheadfornonwebfiles ) then
        local is_web_file = false
        local file = url:getPath():lower()
        -- check if we are at a URL with 'no extension', for example: nmap.org/6
        if string.match(file,".*(/[^/%.]*)$") or string.match(file, "/$") then is_web_file = true end
        if not is_web_file then
          for _,v in pairs(self.web_files_extensions) do
            if string.match(file, "%."..v.."$") then
              is_web_file = true
              break
            end
          end
        end
        if is_web_file then
          stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Using GET: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, file)
          response = http.get(url:getHost(), url:getPort(), url:getFile(), { timeout = self.options.timeout, redirect_ok = self.options.redirect_ok } )
        else
          stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Using HEAD: %s", LIBRARY_NAME, file)
          response = http.head(url:getHost(), url:getPort(), url:getFile())
        end
      else
			  -- fetch the url, and then push it to the processed table
			  response = http.get(url:getHost(), url:getPort(), url:getFile(), { timeout = self.options.timeout, redirect_ok = self.options.redirect_ok } )
			end
      
			self.processed[tostring(url)] = true
      
			if ( response ) then
				-- were we redirected?
				if ( response.location ) then
					-- was the link absolute?
					local link = response.location[#response.location]
					if ( link:match("^http") ) then
						url = URL:new(link)
					-- guess not
					else
						url.path = link
					end
				end
				-- if we have a response, proceed scraping it
				if ( response.body ) then
					local links = LinkExtractor:new(url, response.body, self.options):getLinks()
					self.urlqueue:add(links)
				end		
			else
				response = { body = "", headers = {} }
			end
			table.insert(response_queue, { true, { url = url, response = response } } )
			while ( PREFETCH_SIZE < #response_queue ) do
				stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Response queue full, waiting ...", LIBRARY_NAME)
				condvar "wait"
			end
			condvar "signal"
		end
		condvar "signal"
	end,
	
	-- Loads the argument set on a script level
	loadScriptArguments = function(self)
		local sn = self.options.scriptname
		if ( not(sn) ) then
			stdnse.print_debug("%s: WARNING: Script argument could not be loaded as scriptname was not set", LIBRARY_NAME)
			return
		end
		
		if ( nil == self.options.maxdepth ) then
			self.options.maxdepth = tonumber(stdnse.get_script_args(sn .. ".maxdepth"))
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.maxpagecount ) then
			self.options.maxpagecount = tonumber(stdnse.get_script_args(sn .. ".maxpagecount"))
		end
		if ( nil == self.url ) then
			self.url = stdnse.get_script_args(sn .. ".url")
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.withinhost ) then
			self.options.withinhost = stdnse.get_script_args(sn .. ".withinhost")
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.withindomain ) then
			self.options.withindomain = stdnse.get_script_args(sn .. ".withindomain")
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.noblacklist ) then
			self.options.noblacklist = stdnse.get_script_args(sn .. ".noblacklist")
		end
	  if ( nil == self.options.useheadfornonwebfiles ) then
			self.options.useheadfornonwebfiles = stdnse.get_script_args(sn .. ".useheadfornonwebfiles")
		end
	end,
	
	-- Loads the argument on a library level
	loadLibraryArguments = function(self)
		local ln = LIBRARY_NAME

		if ( nil == self.options.maxdepth ) then
			self.options.maxdepth = tonumber(stdnse.get_script_args(ln .. ".maxdepth"))
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.maxpagecount ) then
			self.options.maxpagecount = tonumber(stdnse.get_script_args(ln .. ".maxpagecount"))
		end
		if ( nil == self.url ) then
			self.url = stdnse.get_script_args(ln .. ".url")
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.withinhost ) then
			self.options.withinhost = stdnse.get_script_args(ln .. ".withinhost")
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.withindomain ) then
			self.options.withindomain = stdnse.get_script_args(ln .. ".withindomain")
		end
		if ( nil == self.options.noblacklist ) then
			self.options.noblacklist = stdnse.get_script_args(ln .. ".noblacklist")
		end
	  if ( nil == self.options.useheadfornonwebfiles ) then
			self.options.useheadfornonwebfiles = stdnse.get_script_args(ln .. ".useheadfornonwebfiles")
		end
	end,
	
	-- Loads any defaults for arguments that were not set
	loadDefaultArguments = function(self)
		local function tobool(b)
			if ( nil == b ) then
				return
			end
			assert("string" == type(b) or "boolean" == type(b) or "number" == type(b), "httpspider: tobool failed, unsupported type")
			if ( "string" == type(b) ) then
				if ( "true" == b ) then
					return true
				else
					return false
				end
			elseif ( "number" == type(b) ) then
				if ( 1 == b ) then
					return true
				else
					return false
				end
			end
			return b
		end
		
		-- fixup some booleans to make sure they're actually booleans
		self.options.withinhost = tobool(self.options.withinhost)
		self.options.withindomain = tobool(self.options.withindomain)
		self.options.noblacklist = tobool(self.options.noblacklist)
		self.options.useheadfornonwebfiles = tobool(self.options.useheadfornonwebfiles)

		if ( self.options.withinhost == nil ) then
			if ( self.options.withindomain ~= true ) then
				self.options.withinhost = true
			else
				self.options.withinhost = false
			end
		end
		if ( self.options.withindomain == nil ) then
			self.options.withindomain = false
		end
		self.options.maxdepth = self.options.maxdepth or 3
		self.options.maxpagecount = self.options.maxpagecount or 20
		self.url = self.url or '/'
	end,	
	
	-- gets a string of limitations imposed on the crawl
	getLimitations = function(self)
		local o = self.options
		local limits = {}
		if ( o.maxdepth > 0 or o.maxpagecount > 0 or
			 o.withinhost or o.wihtindomain ) then
			if ( o.maxdepth > 0 ) then
				table.insert(limits, ("maxdepth=%d"):format(o.maxdepth))
			end
			if ( o.maxpagecount > 0 ) then
				table.insert(limits, ("maxpagecount=%d"):format(o.maxpagecount))
			end
			if ( o.withindomain ) then
				table.insert(limits, ("withindomain=%s"):format(o.base_url:getDomain() or o.base_url:getHost()))
			end
			if ( o.withinhost ) then
				table.insert(limits, ("withinhost=%s"):format(o.base_url:getHost()))
			end
		end
	
		if ( #limits > 0 ) then
			return ("Spidering limited to: %s"):format(stdnse.strjoin("; ", limits))
		end
	end,
	
	-- does the crawling
	crawl = function(self)
		self.response_queue = self.response_queue or {}
		local condvar = nmap.condvar(self.response_queue)
		if ( not(self.thread) ) then
			self.thread = stdnse.new_thread(self.crawl_thread, self, self.response_queue)
		end

		if ( #self.response_queue == 0 and coroutine.status(self.thread) ~= 'dead') then
			condvar "wait" 
		end
		condvar "signal"
		if ( #self.response_queue == 0 ) then
			return false, { err = false, msg = "No more urls" }
		else
			return table.unpack(table.remove(self.response_queue, 1))
		end
	end,
	
	-- signals the crawler to stop
	stop = function(self)
		local condvar = nmap.condvar(self.response_queue)
		self.quit = true
		condvar "signal"
		if ( coroutine.status(self.thread) == "dead" ) then
			return
		end
		condvar "wait"
	end
}

return _ENV;