Nmap Essentials

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "If you want to make Nmap less verbose than normal, you can also use the --reduce-verbosity flag."

A block of code is set as follows:

  action = function(host, port)
  local robots = http.get(host, port, "/robots.txt")

  if robots.status == 200 then
    return "robots.txt status 200"
  else
    return "robots.txt status: " .. robots.status
  end
  end

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