Re: Zenmap Compare really broken?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:11:05PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:24:33AM -0600, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> 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. I decided to allow it to open the browser if
> even one of the scans has text output, although it's not very helpful if
> only one does because you get an all-insertions or all-deletions diff.

It sure would be great if Zenmap made a smarter diff.  After all, I
can easily take two Nmap normal-format output files and run diff on
them.  But Zenmap has the big advantage of actually parsing and
understanding the Nmap XML output.  So it could, theoretically, give a
much more useful picture of what has changed in terms of new/removed
host or new/removed listening services (and ideally it could handle
misc. changes like OS detection, MAC address, NSE results, etc.)

I don't know if it is possible this summer, but it would certainly be
cool.

Cheers,
-F

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