[NSE] Catching socket errors, documentation discrepancy

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Hey list,

While working on a script, I found that the socket I/O described on the 
NSE API page (http://nmap.org/book/nse-api.html) and in the nmap library 
documentation (http://nmap.org/nsedoc/lib/nmap.html#send) is not how it 
is currently implemented. Specifically, socket operations are now 
throwing Lua errors instead of returning a false value and an error 
string. Is there a current reference for how errors should be treated? 
Is there a plan to change the existing documentation to match the 
current implementation? I could source-dive and find how to do it 
myself, but I think we should be a little more user-friendly for script 
authors who take the documentation at its word.

Dan
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