Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

In the script supermicro-psblock.nse, we defined the execution rule with the shortport.portnumber function: 

   portrule = shortport.portnumber(49152, "tcp") 

The http NSE library has methods such as http.head(), http.get(), and http.post(), corresponding to the common HTTP methods HEAD, GET, and POST, respectively, but it also has a generic method named http.generic_request() to allow more flexibility for developers who may want to try more obscure HTTP verbs.

In the script supermicro-psblock, we used the http.get() function to retrieve the URI /PSBlock:

   local open_session = http.get(host.ip, port, "/PSBlock") 

The http.get() function returns a table containing the following response information:

• status-line: This contains ...