[gopher] Nmap 6 supports Gopher!

[Nuno J. Silva]

On 2012-05-22, Kim Holviala wrote:

> From the release notes at http://nmap.org/6/
>
> "Nmap now supports the old-school Gopher protocol thanks to our handy gopher-ls NSE script. We even support Gopher over IPv6!"
>
> I have absolutely no idea what that means... and I use Gopher and nmap almost daily.
>
> (WTF is NSE?)

Seems to be a way to make scripts to automate nmap:

http://nmap.org/book/man-nse.html

The gopher-ls script (http://nmap.org/svn/scripts/gopher-ls.nse) says it
"Lists files and directories at the root of a gopher service.".

>From a quick read, it uses nmap to look for a gopher server and, if
there's something, it prints the first 100 entries of the root menu.


So it's a simple gopher browser built over nmap!

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