Re: [nse] weird nsedoc generation for xmpp-info and xmpp-brute

[Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon () gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:00 -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:33:52PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > There are weird lines related to smb* on xmpp-* pages, just before
> > "Example Usage":
> >
> > http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/xmpp-brute.html
> > http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/xmpp-info.html
> >
> > "smbdomain, smbhash, smbnoguest, smbpassword, smbtype, smbusername
> > See the documentation for the smbauth library."
> >
> > I wonder how it could be generated from xmpp-*.nse, they finish nsedoc
> > with lines unrelated to smb*:
> >
> > -- @args xmpp-info.alt_server_name If set, overwrites alternative hello name sent to the server.
> > --       This name should differ from the real DNS name.  It is used to find out whether
> > --       the server refuses to talk if a wrong name is used.  Default is ".".
> > -- @args xmpp-info.no_starttls If set, disables TLS processing.
> >
> > A bug in html pages generator?
>
> It's because xmpp includes smbauth through sasl. NSEDoc pages show
> script arguments for all libraries used, even recursively.

Ah, understood.  However, resursive arguments addition confuses a bit in
this specific case.

Anyway, thanks!

-- 
Vasiliy
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