Re: Nmap as a library

[Andreas Marschke <andreas.marschke () googlemail com>]

Hi Jonathan,

I have been looking into those and their alternatives on cpan (nmap::scanner) yet both of them feel rather unintuitive 
to use and not well integrated. And that beside the hope that nothing would change in the future with newer versions 
and/or the inclusion of new features in nmap not directly accessible through both of them spurred my interest in fixing 
this once and for all. 
-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,

Andreas Marschke.



Jonathan Claudius <JClaudius () trustwave com> schrieb:

Andreas,

Have you looked into the NMAP::Parser libs for either Perl or Ruby?

I've been using the Ruby version for some time with little to no problems with parsing.

-Jonathan

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On Apr 16, 2012, at 8:21 PM, "Andreas Marschke" <andreas.marschke () googlemail com> wrote:

> Dear list readers and nmap developers,
>
> I have been toying around with the idea of using nmap for managing new assets on my network or getting data of newly 
> created hosts.
>
> Now, I'm a perl programmer and would like to do tgis from within perl. But doing execs and parsing output (even 
> though it is xml) is rather difficult and prone to fail once a version change has happend and the output has changed 
> from one space to 2 or voce versa or otherwise.
>
> Perl has a nice way of including c or c++ application libraries. They link against them using XS or SWIG.
>
> Would it be possible to make a library out of nmap with only the nmap binary as a wrapping console application around 
> it?
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,
>
> Andreas Marschke.
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