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Re: Error using update-nessusrc

Subject: Re: Error using update-nessusrc
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:45:20 -0400
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:06:51PM -0500, Young, Beth A. wrote:

Apologies for the delay... I'm just returning from vacation.

I am trying to use update-nessusrc script to do the SANS Top 20 and I am
getting an error when the script runs. 
...
*** can't retrieve 'http://www.sans.org/top20/' - 302 Found! ***

It appears that SANS is adjusting their content based on the "browser's"
user agent and, in the case of my script, it redirects to a non-existent
page.  A work-around is to change the user-agent string, $useragent, to
something more common; eg,

  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 
Firefox/1.0.6

You can make the change either in the script itself or in the file
~/.update-nessusrc. 

I'll update the script's homepage in a bit. 

George
-- 
theall@tifaware.com

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