Re: NSE console script help

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:50:14PM +0100, Martin Holst Swende wrote:
> On 01/19/2011 03:24 AM, Fyodor wrote:
> > To support only #3 or #4, we'd need a new option like --script-help
> > and it would have to pair with existing scripting options like
> > --script, -A, or -sC.  And we would have to do the actual scanning too
> > (possibly just to the point of rule evaluation for #3).
> It is conceivable that this could also be 'shortcutted', so that  the
> user specifies service/port from the
> command line. Something like:
> nmap -p80,8080 --script=all --script-help service='http'
> ==> nmap 'pretends' to have found open port 80,8080 and 'http'

I think that might be too complicated for most users.  If there is one
part of Nmap we should try to make simple, it is the help system :).
Also, some script rules depend on version detection results or other
information you wouldn't get even with the -p and service arguments
above.  I think I prefer the "--script-help [argument]" syntax, taking
the same arguments as --script can.  Users could get basically the
results above from "--script-help http-*'.

Cheers,
Fydoor
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