Re: ripeQuery.nse removed

["Diman Todorov" <diman.todorov () gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> Hi all.  After some (naming related) discussions with David, we
> decided to delete the ripeQuery.nse script on the grounds that, while
> it was quite useful for its time, the newer whois.nse contains all
> that functionality and more.  Whois.nse is also more reliable because
> it detects various common problems which can prevent ripeQuery from
> working.
>
> To its credit, ripeQuery certainly did a lot in few lines:
>
> flog~/nmap/scripts>wc whois.nse ripeQuery.nse
>  2186 12112 89775 whois.nse
>   38   117   865 ripeQuery.nse
>
> Anyway, if I'm wrong and someone things we SHOULD keep ripeQuery.nse,
> please speak up and we can potentially resurrect it.

I would suggest keeping it in the demo category. It is a quick and
easy example of something that cannot be done with ordinary version
detection but can be done with NSE. Also because of its brevity it is
reasonable boiler plate code. But if I am forgetting a script which is
equally short and does something similar (connect to a third party)
then I am all for removing it.

cheers,
Diman

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