Re: I want to develop a web GUI client for Nessus.

Haroon Meer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi John.

Check out .. nessus-core/doc/ntp
The whitepaper has all u need.. Depending on what exactly u require.. u
can smash together a client in about 25 lines of code..

/mh

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Haroon Meer                                                         MH
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On Sat, 3 May 2003, John D. wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   I want to write a Nessus Client in Python,  driving a back end CGI.   I'm already aware of "inprotect" written in PHP/MySQL.   I want to write one in Python/PostGreSQL.
>
>   Because I'm so new to Nessus,  my first task is to learn as much about the Nessus server as I can.   I want to know how hard it is to develop this without a client,   or with a simple test client.
>
>   I'm assuming the nessus server is like any other server.  IE:  it listens for socket connections and accepts packets and interprets them as commands and executes them.   Where can I find a list of commands and socket protocol?   I really don't like to have to dig through tons of C code in the source.   Is there some document that lists these commands?
>
>    Anyway,  if I'm in the wrong list,  let me know,  and I'll get out of here.   Thanx guys....
>
> John
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