Nmap Development mailing list archives
Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:23:15 -0700
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 06:59:12PM +0200, mixter () gmail com wrote:
By diff'ing the 2006 nsock version against it (attached), I found there's just one major difference, which is in do_actual_read(): - buflen = read(iod->sd, buf, sizeof(buf)); + buflen = recv(iod->sd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
That is good news that the difference is so little! According to the comment above that line in Nsock: /* Traditional read() - no SSL - using recv() because that works better on Windows */ So we did use read() there some years ago, but it didn't work properly on Windows. Have you tested Ncat on Win? Is Ncat not working at all with recv()? That seems strange, since Nmap uses Nsock in similar ways with the same code path. For example, version detection makes TCP connections on which it sends/receives data, and also does UDP. NSE does the same. So I think Ncat *should* be able to work with Nsock as is. But of course that doesn't explain why it isn't :). Can you research more what is causing Ncat to fail with our nsock? I'd like to have Nmap and Ncat shre the same library code. Plus, even if you import Nsock code into Ncat in order to use read(), you may just encouter the Windows problems which caused us to abandon read() years ago. Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock mixter () gmail com (May 08)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock Fyodor (May 08)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock doug (May 08)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock mixter () gmail com (May 09)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock mixter () gmail com (May 09)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock Fyodor (May 09)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock mixter () gmail com (May 10)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock Fyodor (May 10)
- Re: ncat's nsock vs. nmap nsock Fyodor (May 08)