Re: Whisker Research

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:50:05AM -0700, Erik Stephens wrote:
>   Make no404.nasl store something in the kb when it gets 403 return
>   codes.  It would have to be a separate key so as to not interfere
>   with existing plugins that depend on no404.nasl.

This would be good. Actually webmirror.nasl stores
www/<port>/password_protected if it only get 403 error codes. I found
some web servers which would wait 5 seconds before giving you a reply
when a page is forbidden, and I'm wondering if it would make sense to
disable ALL web checks when we meet such a server.



				-- Renaud