Network Security Tools

Using LibWhisker

LibWhisker is the Perl module Nikto relies on for its core functionality. At the time of this writing, the current Nikto version ships with LibWhisker 1.7. In general you will not need to use more than a handful of LibWhisker routines. Keep in mind they are all available and have very powerful features, such as crawling, NT Lan Man (NTLM) authentication support, hashing, and encoding. The names of the 69 exported routines are detailed here to help you understand the kind of functionality they provide. You can generate a very detailed manual of these routines from LibWhisker itself. To do this, uncompress LibWhisker and run the following commands:

$cd libwhisker-1.8/scripts/
$perl func2html.pl < ../LW.pm > LW.pod.htm

Here are the routines LibWhisker exports:

anti_ids	forms_read	multipart_setfile
auth_brute_force	forms_write	multipart_write
auth_set_header	get_page	ntlm_client
bruteurl	get_page_hash	ntlm_new
cookie_get	get_page_to_file	upload_file
cookie_parse	html_find_tags	utils_absolute_uri
cookie_read	http_do_request	utils_array_shuffle
cookie_set	http_do_request_ex	utils_find_lowercase_key
cookie_write	http_fixup_request	utils_get_dir
crawl	http_init_request	utils_getline
crawl_get_config	http_reset	utils_getline_crlf
crawl_set_config	md4	utils_getopts
decode_base64	md4_perl	utils_join_uri
decode_base64_perl	md5	utils_lowercase_hashkeys ...