Re: Zenmap Compare really broken?

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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David Fifield wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:24:33AM -0600, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> > I was using Zenmap (SVN) and trying out the Compare Results feature.  I 
> > opened two XML files I wanted to view the differences between (mainly 
> > just to test it out), but nothing happened.  When I clicked "Open in 
> > Browser" to see if that would do anything, it just said to select two 
> > files to diff.
> >
> > Brokenness Question: Doesn't Zenmap support straight XML files or just 
> > the USR thing?  I thought it used both, but maybe this is causing some 
> > of my problems.
>
> Hi Kris. I think I have fixed this.
>
> There was indeed a bug that prevented plain Nmap XML files from being
> compared. The comparison window was checking the Nmap output of each
> selected scan against the empty string to see if a scan had been
> selected or not. When you loaded a scan whose output *is* the empty
> string (a plain Nmap XML output file), it falsely assumed that you
> hadn't selected a scan yet.

Great, thanks.  It seems to work fine now.

> You still don't get anything from the HTML browser view, because that
> only compares the text outputs. Now it gives a more helpful error
> message explaining the situation instead of claiming you haven't
> selected two scans yet.

Oh, gotcha--I didn't know it only diff'd the text.  The new error message
definitely helps :)

> David

Thanks again,
Kris Katterjohn

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