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Re: What languages/toolkit to use for the new GUI?
From: Will Beers <whbeers () mbio ncsu edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:13:13 -0400
Andreas Ericsson wrote:
zorkshin () tampabay rr com wrote:Question: What about a completely web-based (PHP/Perl/Python/etc) based GUI? Rather than bother with messy gui libraries or Java, it would make it very elegant as a cross platform tool (in general).I hope you're kidding. If you're not, and for those who starts thinking it's a good idea, I'd like to stomp firmly on this track of thought right now. Having a webbased gui would require every user wanting to use it to install a webserver on the computer they wish to run it from. Webservers are advanced. Webservers with advanced script-languages are even more advanced. The millions of lines of codes with potential bugs rhymes extremely poorly with the entire concept of a security scanner.
Actually if you look at the archives a bit, I've made a fairly detailed outline of the features I intend to implement in my web based proposal (under the "Nmap GUI" subject). Now, my goal isn't to replace the role of a standalone GUI app in any respect - this is a tool for people or institutions that routinely scan a network over a long period of time and like to know what's listening on which machines on their network, or when something new starts listening...without having to keep tons of text/xml files around and perform manual diffs of them. I'd contend that my goals would be MUCH more easily implemented and utilized in a central, web-based environment than as a standalone application. I'd also contend that most people likely to deploy an application of this nature would already have a web server running in some capacity somewhere for internal purposes. The fact that the web server it runs on is potentially vulnerable is also to an extent irrelevant for that reason. Maintaining said web server would (hopefully) already be an exercised practice. As far as the security aspect of the tool itself goes, such a tool would ideally be deployed with proper precautions taken to isolate it from unsafe networks and internal threats (behind appropriate firewalls, access controlled, etc). Will _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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- Re: What languages/toolkit to use for the new GUI? zorkshin (Jun 07)
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