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Re: Auto-closing XML tags, error messages in XML output
From: Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:52:07 +0000
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:14:07 -0600 David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
There is this TODO item: o Nmap should probably always produce a well-formed XML file, even if it exits with a fatal() error. In that case, the error should be included in the XML. Right now, for example, if the network is down, the XML output will just stop (no closing tags) and Nmap will print something to STDERR like: nexthost: failed to determine route to 9.48.184.164 QUITTING! I merged what I've been working on in regard to this in r17300. Here's a summary of the change.
[...] This is great. I rely on XML output heavily. I just SVN up'd and I'll get another round of scans going. I think this is a huge improvement to Nmap so it's great that you've implemented it so quickly and apparently smoothly. I'll report back any issues (or lack of) that I come across. Brandon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvFLd0ACgkQqaGPzAsl94K6EQCgr2EMCTy1B3gTM4m+eXzgSn9p Og8AnRxPYEnC0x59lsiuPyNaY5ZRp6+5 =KWTG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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