Re: another redirect bug, invalid location header field

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 1 March 2013 16:54, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:27:15PM +0000, Robin Wood wrote:
> > I just hit another bug in the redirect code, scanning india-forums.com I
> > got the following error:
> >
> > NSE: http-tracker_tracking against 173.248.143.140:80 threw an error!
> > /usr/bin/../share/nmap/nselib/http.lua:941: attempt to concatenate local
> > 'port' (a nil value)
> > stack traceback:
> >         /usr/bin/../share/nmap/nselib/http.lua:941: in function
> > 'lookup_cache'
> >         /usr/bin/../share/nmap/nselib/http.lua:1384: in function 'get'
> >         http-tracker_tracking.nse:65: in function
> > <http-tracker_tracking.nse:59>
> >         (tail call): ?
> >
> > I think this is probably because their header location field isn't a
> valid
> > URL:
> >
> > Location: //www.india-forums.com/
>
> I hit this recently too--it's already fixed in r30589. You will want to
> use at least r30593 if you're doing lots of scans that have redirects.
>
> David Fifield

If I'm going to run them again then I'll grab the latest version from the
repo.

Robin
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