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Re: ncat usage


From: James Rogers <jamesmrogers () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 14:14:18 -0400

The file you are trying to upload to the web browser, does it have the
http response as the first line followed by a couple of newlines?

A valid file to return would look like this:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

<html>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Without the http response in the file the browser won't know what to do.

I got this example file from here: http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-usage.html



On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Dave Henderson
<dhenderson () digital-pipe com> wrote:
On 05/07/2012 04:10 PM, Dave Henderson wrote:

On 05/07/2012 03:57 PM, David Fifield wrote:

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 03:34:06PM -0400, Dave Henderson wrote:

Good afternoon gang!  I'm working on a project that currently uses
Berkley's netcat (nc), however, during some research I stumbled on
ncat.  I can see that it's much more comprehensive so I'd like to
make the switch to using it instead, but I can't seem to get it
working right.  The project is basically a bash version of a web
server.  I'll post the working code below.  Any help would greatly
be appreciated!

Thanks,
Dave



while (( 1 == 1 )); do                # causes an infinite loop for
processing requests
    #nc -Cl $sOPTS "$iPORT"<  "$SI">  "$SO" 2>>/tmp/debug.txt&    #
netcat-openbsd - DEBUGGING ERRORS/MESSAGES
    nc -Cl $sOPTS "$iPORT"<  "$SI">  "$SO"&
# netcat-openbsd
    #ncat $sOPTS -vvv -C -l 127.0.0.1 $iPORT<  "$SI">  "$SO"&
# ncat

    trap exitGraceful SIGINT                                    #
traps ctrl-C to exit this script
    head -n 1 "$SO" | procRequest>  "$SI"
    trap - SIGINT
done

You will probably be happier with this (no while loop):

ncat -l -k $iPORT --sh-exec "cat \"$SI\""

Compare to some examples here:

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-simple-services.html

David Fifield


Thanks for the reply David.  I've tried using your stated command in place
of the 'while' loop, but I'm still getting the same result - no content in
browser.  Possibly a problem by not using the $SO named pipe?  I did take a
look at the example page before I even contacted this mailing list, but I
didn't see anything on there that was helpful.  Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
Dave


bump for help

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