Re: [NSE] Catching socket errors, documentation discrepancy

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:23:25PM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> While working on a script, I found that the socket I/O described on
> the NSE API page (http://nmap.org/book/nse-api.html) and in the nmap
> library documentation (http://nmap.org/nsedoc/lib/nmap.html#send) is
> not how it is currently implemented. Specifically, socket operations
> are now throwing Lua errors instead of returning a false value and
> an error string. Is there a current reference for how errors should
> be treated? Is there a plan to change the existing documentation to
> match the current implementation? I could source-dive and find how
> to do it myself, but I think we should be a little more
> user-friendly for script authors who take the documentation at its
> word.

Please be more specific about the socket errors that are causing Lua
errors for you. Can you show us example code?

David Fifield
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