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[NSE] Catching socket errors, documentation discrepancy
From: Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:23:25 -0500
Hey list,While working on a script, I found that the socket I/O described on the NSE API page (http://nmap.org/book/nse-api.html) and in the nmap library documentation (http://nmap.org/nsedoc/lib/nmap.html#send) is not how it is currently implemented. Specifically, socket operations are now throwing Lua errors instead of returning a false value and an error string. Is there a current reference for how errors should be treated? Is there a plan to change the existing documentation to match the current implementation? I could source-dive and find how to do it myself, but I think we should be a little more user-friendly for script authors who take the documentation at its word.
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- [NSE] Catching socket errors, documentation discrepancy Daniel Miller (Sep 21)
- Re: [NSE] Catching socket errors, documentation discrepancy David Fifield (Sep 21)
- Re: [NSE] Catching socket errors, documentation discrepancy Daniel Miller (Sep 21)
- Re: [NSE] Catching socket errors, documentation discrepancy David Fifield (Sep 21)