On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:39:30PM +0200, Michel Arboi wrote:
>
> -oG looks better because I planned to remove most of C plugins by
> implementing popen and a couple of other horrors for "safe plugins".
> i.e. nmap_wrapper will be rewritten in NASL sooner or later.
-oG is indeed easier to parse if you aren't using an XML library. The
downside is that it isn't very extensible, and so it doesn't include
as much information as -oX. If all you need is host enumeration
("ping scanning"), port scanning, and OS detection, it should work OK
and be quite stable. Newer features such as version detection and
certain OS detection guessing techniques (when there are no exact
matches) are not presently implemented for -oG. Version scanning may
be added at some point if there is demand (between the final //
delimiters for each port), but many other features won't be.
Cheers,
Fyodor
http://www.insecure.org/
