Re: Call for testing: --lua-exec in Ncat feature (*nix only at the moment)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 06:20:54PM +0200, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> svn co https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/d33tah/ncat-lua && \
> cd ncat-lua
> ./configure
> make
>
> Now, let's try it out. We're first write a script that asks for your name
> and says hello to you. Write the following lines into a greet.lua file:
>
> io.stdout:write("Please enter your name: ")
> io.stdout:flush() --if we don't use print(), we need to flush
> name = io.stdin:read("*line")
> print(string.format("Hello, %s! And goodbye!", name))
>
> Once you you created that file, let's run a service powered by this script
> on a TCP port 31337 and connect to it:
>
> # ncat --lua-exec scripts/greeter.lua -l -p 31337
> # ncat localhost 31337
> Please enter your name:
>
> Now you can write your name (or anything else) and see it being repeated.
> After that, the script terminates and the server shuts down (you can change
> that using --keep-open, or -k command-line switch).

I'd like to add that this works for Windows too now, and we hope to
merge the new feature soon.

David Fifield
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