Re: Ncat + Lua - GSOC feedback request

[Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>]

2013/5/2 Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>:
> 2013/5/1 David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>:
> > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 06:44:49PM +0200, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> > > Today I finished reading through the lists of organisations and
> > > projects that interested me and decided that Ncat is going to be my
> > > top priority for this year's GSOC's application.
> > >
> > > The proposal I simply fell in love with is "Bringing lua to ncat"
> > > which can be found here:
> > >
> > > https://secwiki.org/w/GSoC_community_ideas#Bringing_lua_to_ncat
> > >
> > > I'd like to ask if there is anyone else that already expressed
> > > interest in this task (hopefully not) so I'd know if I can keep
> > > hacking some code for my application. Also, what do you think of SWIG
> > > instead of Lua?
> >
> > As far as I know, noone has expressed interest in the project so far.
> >
> > SWIG instead of Lua is probably not an option. We already package and
> > ship Lua and people know how to use it from NSE.
> >
> > David Fifield
>
> Well, SWIG would let you use Lua as well as many other languages.
> There are shortcoming though - it's a C++-based dependency and there
> are some limitations on what you can do with bindings (
> http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/SWIG.html#SWIG_nn30 )
>
> I haven't finished writing my proposal yet, but I have a tentative
> timeline I would like to ask you to comment:
>
> Week 1 (June 17 – June 23)
> Ncat can run a TCP „hello world Lua client” over TCP. Only sending
> messages is supported yet.
>
>
> Week 2 (June 24 – June 30)
> UDP and STCP routines are added. Preliminary work on onRead callbacks.
>
>
> Week 3 (July 1 – July 7)
> SSL support added. „On read” works correctly for use cases mentioned so far.
>
>
> Week 4 (July 8 – July 14)
> A week for writing tests, demos and documentation for code introduced so far.
>
>
> Week 5 (July 15 – July 21)
> Server mode support started – adding onConnect and onDisconnect handlers.
>
>
> Week 6 (July 22 – July 28)
> A week to catch out with the functionality I might have missed and
> possibly polish the callbacks.
>
> Week 7 (July 29 – August 4)
> Adding support for SOCKS proxy.
>
>
> Week 8 (August 5 – August 11)
> Connection brokering support.
>
>
> Week 9 (August 12 – August 18)
> Suggested 'pencils down' date. „Packing” the code – adding the
> autoconf modifications to support –with-lua. Documenting the rest of
> the code, writing more tests and improving the quality of code where
> needed.
>
>
> Week 10 (August 19 – August 25)
> Finishing the tasks mentioned in the previous week.
> August 23 - Firm 'pencils down' date.
>
>
> Week 11 (August 26 – September 1)
> Rewriting chat as a full blown Lua script.
>
>
> Week 12 (September 2 – September 8)
> Further extending the chat script to make it an impressive Ncat+Lua demo.
>
> My current idea on how to implement this it to introduce a new
> command-line switch --with-script and a set of callback function
> names' switches like --on-connect="some_function_name" which would
> override the default behaviour of ncat. For the places to put the code
> in, I'd start with grepping for "o.chat" in the code and cover the
> cases when a special function is specified. What do you think about
> it?

I have sent you my GSoC proposal, it can be found here:
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/d33tah/1
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