Re: [Plugins-writers] Breakages going from Nessus 1 to 2

From: Renaud Deraison (deraison@private)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 07:44:37 PST

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    On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:34:23PM +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:
    > Hi,
    > 
    > I've found another breakage - under Nessus 1, ereg worked over multiple 
    > lines, but under Nessus 2 it works only on a single line; you must use 
    > egrep for multiple lines. This has caused a plugin we use here to break, 
    > ever since we changed to Nessus 2. As "ereg" appears in 428 plugins I 
    > imagine this is just the tip of the iceburg.
    
    This was fixed a while ago. ereg() was never supposed to do multiline
    matching.
    
    > Another 1 -> 2 problem was that the HTTP functions now use HTTP/1.1 by 
    > default. This broke 10759.
    
    Why ? HTTP/1.0 is hardcoded in it.
    
    
    				-- Renaud
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