Re: http-methods.nse implementation

[Rob Nicholls <robert () robnicholls co uk>]

As a slight aside, I have a feeling that the PUT method is currently 
broken during the "retest". The script should send some content with the 
PUT request to the server (e.g. the string "Nmap", we probably need to 
specify a proper filename too), but looking at the code I don't think it 
does so I expect the web server will always return an error code to the 
script (instead of a 200 OK).

Rob

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:59:49 +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> The biggest problems with http servers is that they are really
> dynamic. Every setting could change based on the path name you are
> accessing, or the dns name you are using. I think it is still a bit
> unclear how far nmap should push with http scanning. Some http
> scanners will probably always perform a better job. Even with them 
> the
> amount of results may be overwhelming, and finding out what is
> interesting may be hard.
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Vlatko Kosturjak <kost () linux hr> 
> wrote:
> > On 03/08/2011 02:49 PM, Rob Nicholls wrote:
> > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:33:48 +0200, Josh Amishav-Zlatin wrote:
> > > > Would it make more sense for the
> > > > script to have a base list of methods that it checks for 
> > > > regardless of
> > > > whether OPTIONS is enabled or not and then appends that list based 
> > > > on
> > > > the results of an OPTIONS request?
> > >
> > > I'd prefer not to trust OPTIONS at all, and perhaps rename the 
> > > existing
> > > option or add something like http-methods.force or 
> > > http-methods.thorough
> > > to test a long hardcoded base list of methods like you suggest. The
> > > current "retest" option doesn't really retest the methods, it 
> > > simply
> > > performs a more thorough test based on the original OPTIONS 
> > > response
> > > (which, as you point out, could be inaccurate).
> >
> > I think we discussed this already some time ago:
> > http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q1/618
> > ...and I remember, decision was to have it like this.
> >
> > And in case you're interested into script which does all tricks
> > mentioned, you can find Perl script on github:
> > https://github.com/kost/http-get-methods
> >
> > Kost
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