Re: LUA "Invalid Escape Sequence" error with NMAP 6.25

[Aaron Giuoco <afxdub () gmail com>]

Hi Patrick,

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>wrote:

> This error is caused by what you pass to --script, not your
> http-screenshot-html.nse script. I assume you did something like (and
> sanitized the output you pasted?):
>
> --script "C:\Users\aaron\http-screenshot-html.nse"
>
> The problem is the Lua 5.2 interpreter does not allow strings to
> contain unknown escape sequences, in this case '\U'. I don't think you
> (the user) should need to escape these backslashes so I consider this
> a bug. I have committed a fix in r30411. Please confirm if this
> corrects the issue for you.
>
> --
> - Patrick Donnelly

I changed the backslashes to forward slashes in "--script" path and it
worked in Win7.  Thanks for the help!

AG
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