Re: Add script arguments to --script-help

[Paulino Calderon <paulino () calderonpale com>]

On 05/01/2013 01:33 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:01:41PM -0500, Paulino Calderon wrote:
> > I've always thought the --script-help command should give you the
> > script arguments so I don't have to look them up when I don't
> > remember/know the argument variables.
> >
> > For example the current output gives:
> > ./nmap --script-help http-brute
> >
> > Starting Nmap 6.26SVN ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-04-30 20:51 CDT
> >
> > http-brute
> > Categories: intrusive brute
> > http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-brute.html
> >    Performs brute force password auditing against http basic authentication.
> >
> >
> > This patch includes the script arguments as follows:
> > http-brute
> > Categories: intrusive brute
> > http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-brute.html
> >    Performs brute force password auditing against http basic authentication.
> > Script Arguments:
> >     http-brute.path points to the path protected by authentication (default: /)
> >     http-brute.hostname sets the host header in case of virtual hosting
> >     http-brute.method sets the HTTP method to use (default: GET)
> >
> > Feel free to suggest improvements to the code, it's a starting
> > point. I couldn't find the @args tags loaded anywhere else so I
> > grabbed them from the file ( Maybe not the most efficient way? )
> You might want to take a look at the zenmapCore/ScriptMetadata class
> that does this job for Zenmap. Zenmap and the NSEDoc pages recursively
> load arguments from included libraries; you might want to do that. There
> is a function there called nsedoc_tags_iter in Zenmap that does the
> right thing for NSEDoc parsing.
>
> David Fifield
Thanks. I'll look into it. I just realized it will be nice if it also 
includes the library argument names.

Cheers.
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