Christian,
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Christian Frichot<xnt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andres & Co,
Hi!
> Had another error pop up today in the w3af_gui:
>
> -------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/christian/w3af/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/scanrun.py", line 110,
> in _showDesc
> self.kbbrowser.rrV.response.highlight( s, severity )
> File "/home/christian/w3af/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/reqResViewer.py", line
> 416, in highlight
> pos = alltext.index(text, pos)
> TypeError: expected a character buffer object
> -------------------
>
> The issue appeared to stem back to the incorrect call of
> addToHighlight() method within plugins/grep/codeDisclosure.py. The
> "res" output from the grep call is an object, to get the text from the
> object you need to call "res.group()"
>
> I found that be changing lines 108 and 121 from:
>
> ------------
> v.addToHighlight(res)
> ------------
>
> to
>
> ------------
> v.addToHighlight(res.group())
> ------------
>
> this resolved the problem.
Ahh, excellent! The patch worked fine, I just applied it to the 1.0
branch and to the trunk. Here [0] you can find a detail of what whas
changed (your recommendations).
> Once again - I'm really enjoying your project and if there are any
> other ways that I might be able to help let me know!
If you've got time, please take a look at the discovery.webSpider
plugin, that's working a little to slow in my opinion. It seems that
it's requesting URLs more than once, and doing some other
non-performant things. If you don't have time, just keep reporting
bugs =)
Thanks!
[0] http://w3af.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/w3af?view=rev&revision=3027
> Regards,
>
> Christian
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