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| Subject: | Testing virtual hosts |
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| Date: | Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:06:20 +0100 |
> Perhaps a silly question but a quick search couldn't find the answer. How > does nessus handle the scanning of a host running a webserver that > provides serveral virtual hosts?
If you select 'reverse dns' or you use the web server NAME, than all (most) of the http functions will use http/1.1 calls with the appropriate headers.
No, you just need to enter the name of the target host and that's it. If the DNS<->IP has not been done it (ie: because the server has not been put in production yet) you can force it in Nessus by giving the host name between brackets. Ie: "127.0.0.1[www.foo.bar]" will test 127.0.0.1 and all the HTTP requests will have the Host: header set to www.foo.bar.
-- Renaud
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