Nikto optional dependences

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

I'm forwarding a mail from the Nikto mailing list which might be useful to
any Nikto users.

An answer to a question mentioned an optional dependency so I asked if
there were any others and this was the answer.

Robin

---------- Forwarded message ----------

> Good question which should be documented. Adding to comments in nikto.plfor now and will get it in the official docs 
> later...
>
> # Optional modules loaded elsehwere:
> POSIX  -- reading in passwords w/o echoing characters
> Time::HiRes -- pause/sleep functionality
>
> # MSF report plugin
> RPC::XML
> RPC::XML::Client
>
> # JSON-PP.pm -- for -Savedir functionality
> Math::BigInt
> Math::BigFloat
> Encode
> Scalar::Util
>
> # LW2 -- these may be faster than built-in LW code but will not fail w/o
> MIME::Base64
> MD5
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> > On Mar 17, 2013 1:02 PM, "Sullo" <sullo () cirt net> wrote:
> > > Do you have the TIme::HiRes module installed? If you do, any valid
number  > 0 should work. For example:
> > > sullo$ ./nikto.pl -h localhost -Pause .5
> > > -***** Pausing .5 second(s) per request *****
> > >
> > > If you don't have Time::HiRes you can still use Pause but you can only
use whole seconds. This may be what is tripping you up?
> > > Regards,
> > > Sullo
> >
> > Are there any other optional dependencies like this that are worth
installing?
> > Robin
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Dave Wray <david.wray () sec-tec co uk>
wrote:
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I’m having trouble setting non-integer pauses times such as 0.5
seconds.
> > > > Nikto 2.1.5 (fully updated) seems to treat values less than 1 as zero.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > D
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