Re: nmap-2.54b5+V-CVS (I know... I know... BETA6...)

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Jay Freeman (saurik) wrote:

> This is the biggee:  table based output.  I got mad, and wrote a library I
> don?t even like anymore called "libtabular" that let?s me multiplex my

Cool.  That sounds like an interesting and useful approach.  Clearly the
current output routines for outputting the human-readable port table do
not scale.  Some sort of table creation library will probably be needed.

> ACK!  I didn't think he would ever get around to it :).

Heh :).  Well, I have a very long TODO list and the items get shifted
around a bit but they usually get done eventually.  I usually hold off if
I know someone else is working on the same thing, but only if you tell me
you are doing so :).

> don?t even yet?) and then get him to move pos_scan and super_scan out into
> the separate source files on his end so I can start work on _really_

Sure, I am moving in that direction anyway.  Mostly because I might make
Nmap into a library (or set of libraries) and so I want to isolate just
the nmap command line UI in nmap.c (it will be a client of those
libraries).  So I just released 2.54BETA7 which moves those functions (and
a bunch of others) out to different files.

> Oh, and I moved the regex stuff into nbase, where it seemed more
> appropriate.

Yeah, that makes sense.

> I really think this method would work better.  That way the XML output could
> be designed to be as sophisticated as is neccessary, and we just need to get
> XSLT to the other formats (which shouldn't be difficult, I write XSLT all

That sounds reasonable, if the XSLTs are powerful enough.  I left native
output of the normal and grepable format inside core Nmap.  But I was
thinking that HTML and DB output should probably be based on the XML.  I
can perceive some arguments for making grepable based on the XML.  I don't
know about standard output.

Output version negotiation between the different versions of various
output formats seems like it could be overkill.  But maybe that is just
me.

Cheers,
Fyodor


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