Re: Possible Nmap Suggestion

[William McVey <wam () cisco com>]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 15:57 -0500, Alan Jones wrote:
> The name parameter could be used as a simple description to remind the
> the person scanning what was special about one scan as opposed to the other.

I like this suggestion as it allows me to attach metadata into the scan
results which can then be queried or keyed upon in a very site-specific
manner. I'd highly recommend not limiting it to a single invocation of
the --name (or perhaps --tag?) option. I'd suggest allowing as many
option invocations as desired, and each one resulting in a new element
node (perhaps as a child of <scaninfo>). To me the real utility here is
to attach site-specific semantics into the output stream. Currently,
folks are doing this with filenames and directory hierarchies, but it's
hard to get access to that info from within an XSL transform or XPATH
query.

> I am not sure how easy it would be to implement but if it basically
> could declare anything in between a set of quotes " " as the description
> would be best.

So long as the 'anything' is properly quoted for an XML output stream,
yes.

  -- William

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