Re: Getting started with NSE

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hello Raja,

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM, raja naresh <rajanaresh89 () gmail com> wrote:
> I have been using nmap for a while now and I really want to get started on
> the development side. I was not tracking any developments of nmap until now
> and it's really interesting to know that nmap has already support for
> scripting engine. Not sure if this was already available in the version I
> was using (nmap-5.00) but anyway, I already came to know about some of the
> details of NSE from the GSoC page and I would be obliged if anyone could
> elicit the reasons for choosing lua as the scripting language interface.
> Anyone with any information or pointers to the developers list where the
> decisions took place are really appreciated.

I don't know if you'll find any reasons in the mailing list archives
but a brief reasoning is provided in the NSE chapter of the Nmap
Scanning Book [1].

> I am a student and I am really looking forward to integrating a high level
> scripting language such as python. I am thinking of it to be my idea for my
> application for GSoC. Any sort of help is welcome and appreciated.

Python is not intended for use as a scripting language in the
traditional sense. It is better suited for high-level application
development (which we do use it for, in Zenmap).

[1] http://nmap.org/book/nse-language.html

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- Patrick Donnelly
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