[httpush-devel] Plugin documentation review

[Lluis M. <ll...@gi...>]

Hi all,

This last week I've been working on the plugin interface
to HTTPush. The current CVS code currently sports a
couple of functional (useless) plugins:

- Automatically retrieve whois information for domains
audited
- Create a log file using the old "pre-XML" format.

I've posted a plugin reference to the documentation
section, you can find it at
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6005&group_id=29026
or at the CVS code, as the docs/plugins.txt. I recommend
getting the text file, as displayed as HTML it's a bit
chaotic.

The document covers only the very basics, I hope to
improve it in the next weeks with your help, please post
any doubts/requests/modifications you may come up with
:) Btw, if you want to try and write a plugin, note that
the specifications will (most probably) change, so I
wouldn't get too much into it, at least till the
document hasn't been completed.

As I added the plugin vulnerabiliy reporting capability,
I updated the functionality of the internal webserver to
display vulnerability information, still very basic but
worth giving it a try. Of course the old functionality
is still there, but I feel the plugin/XML/vulnerability
thingie will be the way to go, as it opens a new world
of vulnerability research, by automating tedious tasks
while auditing web servers.

Performance is not really great, but considering all the
stuff it does in the background, I'm satisfied with it
at the moment. Any ideas on how to improve performance
is welcome :)

Check the changelog for more info.

Cheers,

Lluis Mora  ll...@gi...
.