Nmap, tty and Perl

[Noam Rathaus]

Gabor,

Those two are great packages, but they don't get a more frequent
progressbar than that which is spit out by Nmap, which is problematic
if you want to show it more "interactively" to the user.


BTW:
1) the first one has several bugs, for example it gets stuck as it
waits for the IO which never comes :D - but it is easy to fix... just
remove the $error join which is found in the Parser
2) the second one is synchronic only (doesn't support asynchronic),
which is problematic

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gabor Szabo<szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Noam Rathaus<noamr at beyondsecurity.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to get nmap to be a bit more "friendly" by wrapping it
>> inside a perl script that will cause it to spit out a status by
>> "sending it a character":
>
> I don't know much about nmap but have you looked at either of the
> following modules ?
>
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nmap-Scanner/
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nmap-Parser/
>
> Gabor
> http://www.perl.org.il/
>
>