Re: [NSE] Script Pre-scanning and Post-scanning announcement

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hi Djalal,

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz () gmail com> wrote:
> I've been working on adding support for new NSE rules, the work is based
> on the prerule_postrule proposal which can be found at:
> svn://svn.insecure.org/nmap-exp/djalal/prerule_postrule_proposal.txt
>
> The idea is to add two rules:
> * prerule: for Script Pre-scanning.
> * postrule: for Script Post-scanning.
> [...]

Thanks for your hard work in getting this done Djalal! Unless anyone
has any problems reported here, I support merging this branch to
/nmap.

How is the documentation coming along? (Also, these new environment
variables, below, need to be documented as well.)

> Implementation:
> ---------------
> This new implementation introduces three new environment variables for
> scripts:
> * SCRIPT_PATH: the script path.

For script writers, this replaces the undocumented "filename" global.
If you want your script filename, use this.

> * SCRIPT_NAME: script short name without the ".nse" extension, this is a
> replacement for the old "filename".

For script writers, this is the script "id". (There used to be a
script field called "id" but it is long since been deprecated.) You
can use this to make nice script-personalized debug output.

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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