Re: stream output

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

I am not talking about scripts alone. I'm ok with a script returning a
string, but I would like to see a stream of discovered nodes, and open
ports, and detected service, and script results that gets updated as
nmap makes new discoveries, as opposed to the current output mechanism
which creates an xml-report when everything has completed. Would this
be a viable project idea for GSoC 2012?

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Corey Quinn <corey () sequestered net> wrote:
> > Yup! Pass a -v or two as an argument to nmap.
> >
> > Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi> wrote:
> >
> > > Does nmap support outputting scan results as a stream of findings as
> > > they come up? Such functionality could be used to refresh user
> > > interfaces or send warning emails to admins while the scan is still
> > > running.
> > >
> > >  --Toni
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> That would give you any verbose/debug messages added by the developer, which
> may or may not include what's reported as a result string by the
> script. AFAIK there's no such capability in Nmap yet and "script results"
> can only be returned as a string by the action method.
> As scripts use different methods of building their "result string", using
> tables or concatenation of strings etc, I don't see an easy way of achieving
> this.
>
> Cheers,
> Patrik
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