Re: Api for nmap

[Jason Gerfen <jason.gerfen () gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>
wrote:

> Pro, you are welcome to code whatever you want in Java, but it will not be
> "Nmap", and you will run into trouble if you try to use the Nmap name to
> market it. Feel free to check out our source code and use it as a reference
> point, but be aware that even "basic code like port scanning" is some of
> the most complicated stuff in our codebase, and has been subject to decades
> of real-world testing and improvement. Just ask Jacek, who spent last
> summer updating our TCP Connect scan engine to use Nsock. He was trying to
> make an Nmap function use an Nmap-developed library that is already in use
> in other parts of Nmap, and still ran into difficulty replicating the
> timing algorithms necessary to get good performance.
>
> Jason, your suggestion is certainly more feasible, but I'm not sure that
> we are motivated to encourage something like that. I know that personally I
> would want to see a really good argument for such a feature, including use
> cases that illustrate why Nmap's current interface (command line arguments
> and XML output) are insufficient.
>
> Dan
​Dan,

I for do not condone it, nor do I find it entirely necessary as the current
tool is stable and very usable as is.

The only reason I could see this as being a benefit is regarding a UI in
Windows, OSX, Gnome, KDE or other window manager. Having a linkable object
of library(s) is the only edge case I can see a benefit for this
functionality. Well there is the case for node.js as a native C/C++ module
implementation using GYP but that is well outside the scope of this
conversation.​



> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Jason Gerfen <jason.gerfen () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > Why not simply change the current library to a shared object as there
> > allowing for an API using the existing functions. Save a bit of time IMHO.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Pro Gupta <pchemistry.35 () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Is it feasible , I would start with only the basic code like port
> > > scanning etc...
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > W dniu 09.02.2015 o 12:18, Pro Gupta pisze:
> > > > > As only c/c++ code is present in current nmap libraries, so I was
> > > > > proposing for building a collection of libraries directly in java with
> > > > > the original flavours of core nmap like ultra_scan algorithm etc which
> > > > > could be used for building java based applications without using any
> > > > > native codes as in android etc.
> > > >
> > > > So you're basically proposing a rewrite of Nmap to Java?
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