[Openvas-discuss] Ideas and wishes for future improvements of OpenVAS

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 23:01, Kenneth Ng wrote:
> 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.

there is some documentation about the protocol in the source
code repository. But in fact you are saying to replace the current
protocol and base the new one on some standard protocol technology?

I am also a bit unhappy with the protocol because it has design weaknesses
like unsafe character escaping.

> 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 :-).

There was once a feature like this in Nessus, and AFAIR it is still in the
server side. Only the NessusClient removed it from the GUI options
because overall it caused more trouble than benefit.

I'd say this feature could be established through working on a more advanced
protocol and/or databse feature.

Best

	Jan
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