Reading RHOSTS from a file.

[a10n3.s7r1k3r at gmail.com (Kashif Iftikhar)]

I came up with some code of the form:

               if(value =~ /^file:\/\//)
                        new_value = ''
                        
                        f = File.open(value[7, value.length])
                        f.each_line { |line|
                                new_value += line.strip + ','
                        }
                        f.close()
                        value=new_value.chop! #remove the last character.
                end

but I found out that it has already been done better in the latest update :-)

I am new to Ruby so my code looked more lousy to me.


On 4/24/07, mmiller at hick.org <mmiller at hick.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:43:17AM +0000, Kashif Iftikhar wrote:
> > Miller,
> >
> >   Why not add more code to the normalize function of OptAddressRange
> > class so that it checks if the address starts with something of the
> > format: 'file://path/to/file' then it should open the file and try to
> > read address ranges from it?
> >
> >  The class already contains code like:
> >
> > when /\//
> >   sets << Rex::Socket.cidr_crack(range)
> >
> >  so why not add a "when /^file:\/\// " clause there and do the
> > processing? If you think its a viable idea, I can get it done.
>
> Yeah, I think this would work fine too.  Sounds like a good enough way
> to go about it unless I'm missing something.  Feel free to take a stab
> at it if you're interested :)