Re: Whisker Research

Erik Stephens <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> 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.

While getting my patches tested I noticed a CVS log message indicating
that whisker will be removed in favor of nikto only.  This sounds like
a good idea.  How can I tell what version of nessus those changes will
be released under?  Thanks.

Best regards,
Erik Stephens                                 www.edgeos.com
                   Managed Vulnerability Assessment Services
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