Re: Nmap and XML Output Questions

[Stou Sandalski <stou.sandalski () gmail com>]

If it poses no security or privacy problems for you (or anyone else)
send me the xml file (change the IPs to 192.* or 10.* if you want) and
i'll peep it here and run it through my program to see what it does...
i only tested it with nmap -sS -O scans so i am not sure if it will
freak out for anything else.

stou


On Mon, 17 May 2004 15:39:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00), Alan Jones <asj () ipa net> wrote:
> I tried again to get IE to open the XML file and just get the error
> The XML page cannot be displayed
> Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again 
> later.
>
> Opening in Excel is an easy way to then manipulate the data to many other formats, etc.  Excel 2000, XP, 2003, along 
> with Open Office all support XML, but for some reason only Excel 2000 was able to read the Nmap output and now not 
> sure if that is the case.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stou Sandalski <stou.sandalski () gmail com>
> Sent: May 17, 2004 2:48 PM
> To: Alan Jones <asj () ipa net>
> Cc: nmap-dev () insecure org
> Subject: Re: Nmap and XML Output Questions
>
> IE should open it, and i don't see why excel like applications would
> need to or want to open xml files that have nothing to do with
> 'excel-like' activities... I have an app that successfully reads nmap
> output but since its pretty pathetic right now i'll wait either a
> month or untill its not so embarassing before i release it'.  Database
> servers like DB2 and MSSQL i think even some mysql and postgresql
> implementations can read xml files and store them in databases (just
> FYI, its better then excel tables)
>
> The only 'thing' (can't say a problem) i see with the nmap xml output
> is that the OS/machine type is free text so subsequent processing with
> a front-end or other type of application is kind of unclean.
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 14:28:30 -0500 (GMT-05:00), Alan Jones <asj () ipa net> wrote:
> > How do other use the Nmap XML output on Win32??  I found that OpenOffice.org Calc could not open the XML file as 
> > anything other then a plain text file.  MS Office 2000 could open the XML file in Excel, but Excel 2003 does not , 
> > not sure what M$ changed there.
> >
> > How doe others use the XML output and  what applications have successfully read the output other than your custom 
> > applications?
> >
> > Alan
> >
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