Taras, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Taras P. Ivashchenko <naplan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andres, so we have 2 features to implement: > 1. checking for new version > 2. gathering stats > > About the first. Do you want to write something named > './w3af_check_new_version' script and w3af user will run this script > when he will need to know about new version? > > About the second. If so, we can add some warnings to this script and > question > "Submit OS info when checking for updates Y/N [Y]". > Also we can provide some script param like "--no-ckeck"
I actually wanted to code everything inside the w3af_console and w3af_gui scripts, but it seems that some users won't like it, so the './w3af_check_version' option could be a valid one. I'll think about it for a while, and maybe code it. Cheers, > >> List, >> >> I'm thinking about adding a new feature to detect if the version >> running in the users box, is actually the latest version. To do that, >> w3af will need to send a request to the w3af.sourceforge.net page, >> which will answer back with the current version and then w3af will >> parse that and report if outdated. >> >> Because I know some of you are a little paranoid about me logging >> your IP addresses, I'll also create a --no-ckeck flag that you could >> use to disable this check. >> >> Now the hard part of this email... I would like to use this >> feature to collect a simple statistic on how many w3af users use >> linux, how many use windows, and how many use any other operating >> system. To do this, I would add a parameter to the "check for latest >> version" script that would look like this: >> >> http://w3af.sf.net/check_latest.php?os=linux >> >> With this information, I'll be able to focus on the most important >> platform (which I suspect is linux, but sometimes guessing is not >> enough), and I could delegate the ports to other platforms to other >> developers. The question is... would this bother you? >> >> Thanks for reading my nagy emails =) >> >> Cheers, > -- > Тарас Иващенко (Taras Ivashchenko), OSCP > www.securityaudit.ru > ---- > "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free." - Linus Torvalds > -- Andres Riancho http://w3af.sourceforge.net/ Web Application Attack and Audit Framework ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ W3af-users mailing list W3af-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-users
