The Complete Metasploit Guide

Libraries and the function

Let's see some essential methods from the libraries that are used in this module, as follows:

Functions	Library file	Usage
run_host	/lib/msf/core/auxiliary/scanner.rb	The main method that will run once for each host
connect	/lib/msf/core/auxiliary/scanner.rb	This is used to make a connection to the target host
send_raw_request	/core/exploit/http/client.rb	This method is used to make raw HTTP requests to the target
request_raw	/rex/proto/http/client.rb	The library method to which send_raw_request passes data to
http_fingerprint	/lib/msf/core/exploit/http/client.rb	Parses the HTTP response into usable variables
report_service	/lib/msf/core/auxiliary/report.rb