Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

You're reading from   Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781786467454
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Paulino Calderon Paulino Calderon
Author Profile Icon Paulino Calderon
Paulino Calderon
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Nmap Fundamentals 2. Network Exploration FREE CHAPTER 3. Reconnaissance Tasks 4. Scanning Web Servers 5. Scanning Databases 6. Scanning Mail Servers 7. Scanning Windows Systems 8. Scanning ICS SCADA Systems 9. Optimizing Scans 10. Generating Scan Reports 11. Writing Your Own NSE Scripts 12. HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options 13. Brute Force Password Auditing Options 14. NSE Debugging 15. Additional Output Options 16. Introduction to Lua 17. References and Additional Reading

HTTP pipelining

Some web servers allow the encapsulation of more than one HTTP request in a single packet. This may speed up the execution of an NSE HTTP script, and it is recommended that it is used, if the web server supports it. The http library, by default, tries to pipeline 40 requests and auto adjusts the  number of requests according to the traffic conditions, based on the Keep-Alive header.

$ nmap -p80 --script http-methods --script-args http.pipeline=25 <target>

Additionally, you can use the argument http.max-pipeline to set the maximum number of HTTP requests to be added to the pipeline. If the script parameter http.pipeline is set, this argument will be ignored:

$nmap -p80 --script http-methods --script-args http.max-pipeline=10 <target>
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at ₹800/month. Cancel anytime