Re: stdnse.make_buffer(socket, "\r")

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 06:57:06PM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
>   hello
>
> I am trying to chat with a server that uses "\r" as a line separator.
> I do stdnse.make_buffer(socket, "\r") to handle buffering. The problem
> is that make_buffer will never return anything unless the server sends
> "\n". Is this considered appropriate behavior from make_buffer, or
> would this be considered a bug? I am asking because fixing this for
> each script separately would require duplicating lots of functionality
> available in the standard library.

Probably the server is line-buffered and doesn't even send anything
until it has a '\n' to send. Run your program with --script-trace to see
what is going on. Also consider looking at a packet capture from tcpdump
or Wireshark.

David Fifield
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