Re: http.useragent script argument

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

On 01/07/2010 07:05 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> I added a new script argument, http.useragent, that allows overriding
> the default HTTP User-Agent of
>       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Nmap Scripting Engine; http://nmap.org/book/nse.html)
> You use it like this:
>       nmap --script-args http.useragent=Nmap
>       nmap --script-args http.useragent=\"\"
> Setting it to the empty string disable sending of the User-Agent header.
>
> This was easy to implement so I just did it. It's not too late to change
> the script argument name if you have another opinion about what it
> should be.
>
> It just occurred to me that it might also be useful to be able to set
> the User-Agent from within a script. Maybe there's some application that
> changes its behavior in a way we care about with different agents. Can
> anyone think of an application for this proposed feature?
>
> David Fifield

I've seen more than one site that does a match and says "sorry, we only
support Internet Explorer" or some nonsense like that. This would be
useful for those situations.


-- 
Ron Bowes
http://www.skullsecurity.org/
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