Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Sven Klemm <sven () c3d2 de> wrote:
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> Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> | On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM, David Fifield
> <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> |> Just using nmap.have_ssl in every script that uses the openssl modules
> |> sounds okay. I worry a little that script authors will forget to do
> that
> |> and we will release a broken script.
> |
> | I'm of the opposite opinion. Allowing require to error because of a
> | missing dependency is probably the best solution for this. I am
> | finishing a patch that will issue an error warning that informs the
> | user the script could not be loaded (compilation, run time errors, and
> | missing required fields), as well as the actual error if debugging is
> | on.
>
> I agree. This solution is actually much nicer as the user may have
> installed a library nmap does not know about. Like manually building
> the openssl module while having nmap without openssl.
>
> But the places it looked for the library should still be shown at
> least when -d is active.

This will be the case. The default will be a short message saying it
couldn't be loaded for whatever reason. If debugging is on, then the
actual error message is printed.

Cheers,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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