Re: [NSE] Local IP geolocation script

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:01:24AM +0100, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann wrote:
> information should be close together). Also, a lot of time you do not 
> want the "[scriptname]:" part of the output currently forced by NSE to 
> appear at all which sometimes clutters up the output unneccessarily. 

Hi Philipp.  From an aesthetic perspective, the script name may
clutter the output.  But I think the standardization is valuable
because it always makes it clear to the user which script presented
the output.  This allows you to repeat the scan with just the scripts
you want by passing those names to --script.  It also allows you to
find out more information about the script (supported arguments, etc.)
by looking up the name at http://nmap.org/nsedoc/ .  While developers
were able to do that before by grepping the scripts directory for
output fragments and the like, most casual Nmap users don't even know
where the scripts directory is.  And rummaging around there is a pain
even for those who do.

Cheers,
-F


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