Re: WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned

[Luis MartinGarcia <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

Hi Chhandan,

Nmap takes host names, not HTTP URLs. Please pass only someweb.com. If you
only need to scan port 80 you can pass -p80 to avoid scanning the default
1k ports.

Hope that helps,

Luis.

-- Sent from a cellphone. Apologies for the brevity or any typos.
On 21 Mar 2015 11:57, "chhandan singha" <cskkman () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I tried simple namp scan on a url cpied from the browser;
> I tried
>
> " nmap http://someweb.com/sth";
>
> and I got something like
>
> WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned.
> Nmap done: 0 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 4.26 seconds
>
> I feel nmap should be able to scan after getting appropriate hostname from
> the supplied url if url is given.
>
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