Re: Nmap's XSL headers ignored in Firefox

[Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>]

07/01/2014 22:27:23 Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>:
> List,
>
> I just tried to generate a few Nmap XML files and noticed that Firefox
> doesn't seem to load them. I tried to bug the #firefox guys on Mozilla's
> IRC channel, but got no meaningful reply. Here's what I tried:
>
> 1.
>
> nmap localhost -oX file.xml --webxml && firefox file.xml
>
> Gives an "unknown error" (805303f4) message. Google suggests that it's
> because Firefox doesn't read external XSL's by default.
>
> 2.
>
> nmap localhost -oX file.xml && firefox file.xml
>
> Results in a blank webpage. Tried to replace "/usr/bin/../share" with
> "/usr/share" in the file, no help.

Just checked in Google Chrome. Both steps 2 and 1 give a blank page. So does 
setting the path to nmap.xsl or, say, file:///tmp/xsl/nmap.xsl. The only way I 
managed to get it working is by uploading it to a web server with XSL pointing 
to the same directory (hadn't tried other options). Here's how I found a tip 
that led me to checking that:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/7154507/1091116

I'm starting to think that the Nmap XML files should contain no XSL by default.

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