[Openvas-discuss] Ideas and wishes for future improvements ofOpenVAS

[stripes]

Better NASL debugging :)

-Anne

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:37:15PM -0400, Kenneth Ng wrote:
> Another feature request: a trace function.  Show me sets of queries.
> Each query is composed of the rule that was used, the destination IP
> and port, the data sent, and the data returned.  This will make it
> easier to determine false positives.
> 
> On 5/16/07, Robert Rich <rrich at gsti.net> wrote:
> > You aren't the only one Kenneth:
> >
> > http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2004-February/msg00164.html
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openvas-discuss-bounces at wald.intevation.org
> > [mailto:openvas-discuss-bounces at wald.intevation.org] On Behalf Of
> > Kenneth Ng
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:01 PM
> > To: Jan-Oliver Wagner
> > Cc: openvas-discuss at wald.intevation.org
> > Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] Ideas and wishes for future improvements
> > ofOpenVAS
> >
> > Oh, speaking of client side, have the API between the server and the
> > client documented so that different front ends can be put in.  Let
> > say, I wanted to call open-vas from Perl, or Python, or whatever.
> >
> > You want wide eye dreaming?  Build a front end client that will allow
> > you to disconnect from the session, and then reconnect later.  Or
> > better yet, a client that allows you to disconnect and run background,
> > and then can run a arbitrary command (like send email) when the scan
> > is complete :-).   And then you run the client again and it reconnect
> > right where you left off.  Yeah I'm a dreamer, but you asked :-).
> >
> > On 5/16/07, Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 21:00, Kenneth Ng wrote:
> >
> > > > - Ability to do a "diff" between two scan results.
> > >
> > > A long-standing wish indeed. IMHO this should have high priority.
> > > It is a client-side feature though. So maybe to implement in
> > NessusClient.
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