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Fix for ticket #98 and some general clean up

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12010-01-19 Nikto 2.1.1
2        - Ticket 98: Default output so that if -Format is missed it will guess the format from the extension on the file in -output. If there is no -output switch the default will be none.
3        - Added support to select plugins via -plugins and -list-plugins option to list current plugins
4        - Major fix for proxy usage
5        - Ticket 96: Multiple index file enhancements for groups and better unique file identification
6        - Ticket 103: <description> content in xml report is now wrapped in CDATA
7        - Ticket 110: Mutate now respects db variables
8        - Ticket 97: Fix for response caching
9        - Ticket 99: Spelling disagreements between Brits and Americans
10        - Don't report p3p header as unusual
11        - Various changes to aid future binary db usage for mutates
12        - Various changes to aid future multi-threading
13        - Fix for multiple index files
142009-12-21 nikto.pl
15        - Ticket 100: Fix for reading home directory on Windows
16        - Some new additions to db_realms and db_embedded
172009-08-29 templates/xml* docs/nikto.dtd
18        - Added <statistics /> tag for scan/host statistics
192009-08-25 plugins/db_httpoptions
20        - Fix for #89 - remove TRACE and TRACK from the db
212009-08-19 plugins/nikto_headers
22        - Added test for asp source code disclosure through the Translate
23          header
242009-08-13 plugins/* plugins/nikto_embedded plugins/db_embedded
25        - Various fixes to use nfetch and fix proxy use
26        - New plugin added to identify embedded devices
272009-08-12 plugins/nikto_core
28        - New fetch (nfetch) sub added which uses a local request/result hash.
29          All requests should use this instead of fetch.
30        - Patch to add a URI cache within fetch, can be disabled with -nocache
312009-08-04 plugins/nikto_core
32        - Patch to actually report the URI when it works out a password
33        - Added test for DEBUG HTTP verb
342009-08-03 plugins/nikto.pl
35        - Put in a quick catch for port ranges (e.g. 80-90) if people use the
36          old style of port entries
37        - Put in a simple signal handler to close reporting if a sigint is
38          caught
392009-08-02 plugins/nikto_multiple_index db_multiple_index
40        - Added check for multiple index files for request #16
41        - Turned standard headers into a database file to close off #22
422009-08-01 plugins/* nikto.pl
43        - Fixes for xml reporter to allow multiple hosts
44        - Fixes for html, txt and csv exporters
45        - Fixes bugs #80 and #85
462009-07-31 plugins/* nikto.pl
47        - Fix for ePO agent/HP iLO to not report for each known type of
48          webserver
49        - Big changes to the way nikto assigns targets to remove globals, have
50          deliberately broken nmap scanning and allowing port ranges.
512009-07-20 plugins/nikto_core plugins/nikto_outdated db_tests db_outdated
52        - Fix to ensure that -Tuning works as expected, fixes ticket #84
53        - Fix to add a warning if a web server has been configured to restrict
54          information on its server banner, fixes ticket #66
55        - Minor amendment to lightttpd version to fix ticket #67
56        - Fix to nikto_core to make dbcheck work!
57        - New item for ticket #75
582009-06-30 plugins/nikto_dictionary_attack
59        - Add plugin to use dirbuster lists with mutate 6 and mutate-options
60        - couple of minor fixes to prevent errors on Windows and exporting as
61          text
622009-06-27 plugins/nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin
63        - Managled cgiwrap and apache plugins together and allow use of a
64          dictionary (to speed things up). Also made it work with new
65          reporting style
66        - Added -mutate-options switch
672009-06-15 plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_end
68        - Fixed bug with xml not terminating correctly
692009-05-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_subdomain.plugin
70        - Added subdomain buteforcer as mutate option 5, thanks to Ryan
71          DewHurst
72        - Added extra tests to pull information if scanning ePO agent or HP
73          WBEM
74        - Added test to recognise a Dell Remote Access Console
75        - Added -no404 switch to disable 404 checking. Warning, this produces
76          a lot of false positives at the moment
772009-01-10 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
78        - Added fix for #73 to apply multiple variables for tests, supplied by
79          Laurent Licour
80        - Removed test_target function as now done in the nikto_test plugin
81        - Added support for Allow directive in robots.txt
82        - Added exit if cannot connect to a defined proxy
832008-11-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
84        - Added report phase to plugin runner
852008-10-09 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
86        - Further tunings to authentication code to simplify it.
872008-10-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
88        - Altered authentication code to make it simpler.
89        - Now supports NTLM authentication.
902008-09-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin db_tets
91        - Fixed problem with nikto using authentication provided from the
92          command line. It now adds it to the list of realms.
93        - Added extra test to highlight localstart.asp if it is the default
94          page.
95        - Added tests to identify Ampache.
962008-09-23 plugins/*.plugin
97        - Added support for conditional recon and scan plugins.
982008-09-21 plugins/*.plugin
99        - Changes for new plugin running structure; it needs to be finished
100          (conditional plugins and report methods) but it is good enough to
101          release now.
1022008-09-20 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_cgi.plugin nikto.pl
103           plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_host_head.tmpl
104           docs/nikto.dtd
105        - Fixes to ensure nikto produces less perl warnings
106        - Fix for ticket #59: add vhost to xml output
1072008-09-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
108        - Fix for ticket #37
109        - Allow fetch to optionally call LW2::http_fixup_request
110        - Better handling of extra headers within fetch
1112008-09-14 plugins/db_server_msgs plugins/nikto_*.plugin
112        - Update server messages to dynamic database format
113        - Altered all plugins to use a separate RESULTS array for storing
114          results; meaning that it is easier to abstract
115        - Added add_vulnerability method to nikto_core to report
116          vulnerabilities and reduce code size.
117        - Added ability to add an extra hash to fetch() to allow extra headers
118          to be added.
1192008-09-12 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
120plugins/db_httpoptions plugins/nikto_favicon plugins/db_favicon
121        - Fix for ticket #38: httpoptions are drawn from a database
122        - Now setup to allow dynamic databases, rather than all being imported
123          by nikto_core at start time
124        - Altered favicon database to use dynamic database
1252008-09-06 plugins/nikto_core.plugin tmpl/htm_close.tmpl
126        - Fix for ticket #53: all plugins now show last mod date
127        - Fix for ticket #51: updated copyright date in HTML
1282008-09-04 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
129        - Fix for ticket #55, introduced by the solution for ticket #44
130        - Fix for ticket #53
131=========Nikto 2.03=========
1322008-08-12 plugins/db_outdated
133        - Fix for Jetty to latest version, fixes ticket #49
1342008-08-07 docs/nikto_manual.html
135        - New export of the manual from the docbook
136        - Updated versions in nikto.pl
1372008-08-06 plugins/db_outdated
138        - Added various new versions
1392008-08-05 plugins/db_favicon
140        - Fix for ticket #45
141        - Added favicons for Roku Soundbridge and Ampache
1422008-07-14 plugins/nikto_headers.plugin
143        - Changes to look at non-standard headers
144        - Changes to examine Apache's ETag header
1452008-07-07 nikto.pl plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
146        - Fix for ticket #41 - a rather nasty bug that's been in nikto 2 since
147          its inception; where variables weren't fully expanded.
1482008-07-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
149        - Fix for ticket #11 - change CGIDIRS test so that they're not
150          hardcoded. The reponse codes are now kept in a variable in
151          db_variables
152        - Applied same to enumerating apache users plugin
153        - Fix for ticket #39 - we now check whether getoptions failed, show
154          usage and exit with a code of one. This also means that it will exit
155          gracefully if a parameter is missed out when one is required.
1562008-06-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
157        - Fix for ticket #35 - allow multiple HTTP methods to identify
158          an HTTP server, these are set with the variable CHECKMETHODS in
159          config.txt
160        - Fix for a bug in the nmap reader where it would ignore the IP
161          address if it nmap didn't return a hostname.
1622008-06-22 plugins/db_tests
163        - Fix for ticket #26 - stop domino tests producing false positives
1642008-06-20 plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
165        - Fix for ticket #30 - ensure that propfind has the right OSVDB tag
1662008-04-22 plugins/nikto_outdated.plugin
167        - Change to allow stop duplication of items when scanning more than one
168          host. Fix for bug 28
1692008-04-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
170        - Change to allow reading of a host list from stdin
171        - Fix for enhancement 10: read from nmap output (only -oG)
1722008-04-15 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
173        - Fixes for bug 25: Unopen ports are now reported
1742008-04-14 templates/htm*
175        - Fixes for bug 24: HTML output is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict
1762008-04-11 nikto.pl
177        - Started using international dates instead of the weird US format
178        - Added a fix for bug id 23: allow a range of ports instead of a comma
179        separated list
1802008-04-11 db_outdated
181        - Updated current version of Apache to 2.2.8
18201.06.2008 2.02
183        - Added XML output thanks to the work of Jabra. XML format comes from templates (same as HTML). See the 'templates' dir for more info.
184        - HTML reports changed by Jabra to remove some oddities and remove HTML from items
185        - Fixed non-reporting of non-HTTP ports (or closed ports) when at least one port was HTTP.
186        - Removed experimental knowledge base (KB) code, as XML output is more flexible for long-term scan tracking
187        - Added unique identifiers to all tests from databases, and all tests created in code
188        - Updated documentation
18901.02.2008 nikto_core
190        - Fixed improper parsing of long options (-update, etc.). Thanks to Frank Breedijk for figuring this out.
19112.30.2007 db_servers
192        - Removed as it is not used
19312.19.2007 nikto_msgs.plugin
194        - Add a boundary for regex on versions to cut down false positives
19512.19.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
196        - Added OSVDB ID
19712.18.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
198        - Fix false positive when favicon.ico doesn't exist
19911.22.2007 Nikto 2.01 release
200        - Fix anti ids encoding use. thanks to Francisco Amato
201        - Fix virtual host usage if set via CLI. thanks Jon Hart
202        - Fix Host header restoration when testing for IIS IP leak
203        - Fix for plugindir & templatedir if EXECDIR is set in config.txt, thanks Shiraishi.M and Will Andrews for pointing it out.
204        - Fix count of items--count now accurately reflects the number of items, not just number of vulns. thanks Frank Breedijk
205        - Kick a few more things to KB that should be saved
206        - Added SKIPIDS to config.txt to completely ignore some tests loaded from db_tests. Suggested by Christian Folini.
207        - Enhanced rm_active_content to try to exclude the file/QUERYSTRING requested
208        - Unset the auth header after guessing at it. Thanks Paul Woroshow for reporting the bug.
20911.12.2007 nikto_headers.plugin
210         - Fix internal IP address snarfing for IIS, thanks Frank Breedijk for pointing it out
21111.10.2007 Nikto 2.00 release
212         - Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
213         - Fixups to prevent namespace violations in nikto.pl and nikto_core.plugin
214         - Add some normalizations to the -root option variable, suggested by Erik Cabetas
215         - Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in output
216         - Added -Tuning options to let users specify what they would like to test, or exclude certain categories
217         - Added config.txt's NMAPOPTS, thanks Sean Lewis for the suggestion
218         - All new HTML report
219         - Bugfix: a found cookie would report for every port/server after it was found
220         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with all ports if hosts file used
221         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with port 80 despite what the user wanted
222         - Bugfix: Reverse DNS inet_aton error fix, pointed out by Jason Peel @ Foundstone
223         - Changed auth checking so it will test any directory found, not just /, and removed nikto_realms.plugin as a consequence
224         - Changed scan_database.db format significantly (and name), (and all the code to deal with tests)
225         - Completely new 404 engine which causes less false-positives (see docs)
226         - Created dump_lw_hash instead of dump_request_hash & dump_result_hash
227         - Implemented a knowledge base which (should) store all the gory details of scans... probably use this later ;)
228         - Moved pre-defined variables from config.txt to variables.db so they can be automagically updated. Entries in config.txt are still read.
229         - Removed %CFG, storing vars in %NIKTO instead
230         - Removed -generic
231         - Removed extraneous global vars
232         - Removed load_realms, combined with load_variables
233         - Replaced %CONFIG with %NIKTOCONFIG
234         - Set MAX_WARN to trigger on any response code, skipping 404|403|401|400 to avoid common ones
235         - Added -Single single request mode
236         - Updates to use the RFP's LibWhisker 2.0
237         - Added -Help to show extended help ouput, changed default help screen to be shorter. Suggested by Jericho.
238         - Additional error checking on invalid reverse-dns (Paul Woroshow)
239         - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
240         - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from Erik Cabetas
241         - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
242         - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
243         - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
244         - Bugfix: more 'half dead host' scanning issues resolved with Jericho. LW is much pickier now about calling http_close
245         - Added error if -F specified without -o, from Erik Cabetas
246         - Bugfix: server category match no longer matches partial strings, from Erik Cabetas
247         - Bugfix: mis-pasted line, pointed to by Erik Cabetas
248         - Send all errors to STDERR
249         - Added -config option to specify a config file, thanks to Pavel Kankovsky
250         - fixed regex issue on banner. thanks Alexander Ehlert for pointing it out
251         - All other plugins updated for v2 changes
252         - Added favicon.ico hash checking
253         - ... gobs more
254
25502.06.2004 nikto_core.plugin    1.21
256        - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
257        - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from from Erik Cabetas
258        - Removed duplicate bit of code, from Erik Cabetas
259        - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
260        - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
261        - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
262
26312.17.2003
264        nikto_core.plugin       1.20
265         - Fixed BID links, thanks Richard Tortorella for the report.
266
26710.27.2003 Nikto 1.32 release
268        nikto_core.plugin       1.19
269         - Removed unecessary 'use IO::Socket' call from resolve()
270         - Removed unecessary counters
271         - Replaced some slow foreach counters
272         - Moved proxy_check earlier, before port_scan, so it will be set first
273         - Removed -allcgi option in favor of -CGIdir, which can specify to test 'all', 'none' or a specific directory.
274         - Bugfix: testing through proxy by making sure host name is set instead of ip, thanks to Fabrice Annic for the catch
275         - Bugfix: a regex/logic/if error in test_target, thanks Pavel Kankovsky for the bug report. 401/302 messages will now report regardless of test/pass fail.
276         - Bugfix: -dbcheck now identifies duplicates without relying on message text, thanks Jericho / Attrition.org for pointing this out
277         
278        nikto.pl        1.12
279         - Rearranged order of get_banner & setup so that it would be called right
280
281        nikto_headers.plugin    1.08
282         - Added DAAP header check
283
28410.02.2003
285        nikto_core.plugin       1.18
286         - Fixed get_banner to properly handle multi host/port scans
287
28810.01.2003
289        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.12
290         - Fixed improper matching in version evals, reported by Paul Bakker
291
29209.30.2003
293        nikto_core.plugin       1.17
294         - Reordered loop code to make -f scans faster.
295         - Added a skip for "(Win32)" in the version updates back to cirt.net
296
297        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.11
298         - Stripping () from version strings
299
30009.24.2003  Nikto 1.31 release
301        nikto_core.plugin       1.16
302         - Fixed a bug in resolve() that may prevent name lookups when host files used
303         - Fixed a bug in resolve() where scan would exit if 1 name resolution from host file failed
304         - Changed set_targets so that if the -h value exists as a file it reads that instead of resolving it as a name. This eliminates need for .csv or .txt file name endings.
305         - Added auto or semi-auto update of version strings to CIRT.net. This is done through a simple GET request. Controlled via config.txt's UPDATES variable.
306           *ABSOLUTELY NO* server info is sent... only versions from HTTP headers, i.e. "Apache/4.0". Thanks to Jericho for feedback/ideas.
307         - Added a host counter output at end & for every 10 hosts
308         - Set CHANGES.txt download only on *code* updates, not DBs
309         - Added MAX_WARN to config.txt for warning level on OK/Moved messages, thanks Jericho for the suggestion.
310         - Added PROMPTS to config.txt to allow user control of prompting--good for unattended scans
311         - Added a regex test to dbcheck() better catch errors in server_msgs.db
312         - Thanks again to Jericho for many updated tests/information.
313         - Cleaned up port scan code
314         - Fixed/improved scanning through proxies
315
316        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.09
317         - Added support for sending updates of version strings to CIRT.net. See nikto_core.plugin version 1.15 notes.
318
319    LW.pm - 1.8
320         - Updated to LW.pm v1.8, see the change log included with it (www.wiretrip.net/rfp/).
321         
322    nikto.pl - 1.10
323         - Implemented versioning on nikto.pl (!), many changes to support core 1.15
324         - Put 'require LW.pm' down *after* we know where it is.. duh. Thanks J Barber (ussysadmin.com) for the suggestion. Also changed it 'require' vs 'use' so in the future I can update it, if necessary.
325         - Hosts are now tested in the same order as the appear in an input file
326         
327
32808.18.2003
329        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.08
330            -  Fixed nasty regex bug in the version eval, and made more efficient. Pointed out by fr0stman, thx Zeno for assistance
331             
33207.22.2003
333        nikto_headers.plugin    1.07
334         - Added Host header back after delete in IIS Content-Location check. Thanks to Abdi Ponce for the bug report & debug.
335
336        nikto_httpoptions.plugin        1.04
337         - Changed PROPPATCH, TRACK, TRACE messages. Changed PROPFIND message, thanks to Jericho for tracking down some good info on it.  Added SEARCH message.
338         
339        nikto_core.plugin       1.14
340         - Added <title> tags to the HTML output for browser-neatness
341         - Removed a stray debug print
342         
34307.03.2003
344         - Thanks to Jeremy Bae for many Jeus Webserver tests.
345
34606.29.2003
347        nikto_core.plugin       1.13
348         - changed some &function calls to function() to keep $_ from being passed down another level..  thanks to zeno for the heads-up.
349         
350        nikto_headers.plugin    1.05
351         - fixed the IIS4 content-location check as it had a tendency to fail miserably...
352
35306.29.2003
354        nikto_core.plugin       1.12
355         - changed output of dump_request to be more like normal request text
356
35706.29.2003
358        nikto_core.plugin       1.11
359         - bug fix for scanning through proxies
360
36106.19.2003
362        nikto_core.plugin       1.10
363         - added 'csv' to file formats in -help output (doh!)
364         - minor speedups
365
36606.17.2003
367        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.02
368         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
369         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
370
371        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin  1.01
372         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
373         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
374
37506.16.2003
376        nikto_core.plugin       1.09
377         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins are in the order file
378         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins have properly named sub calls
379         - update option enhanced: retrieves updated CHANGES.txt file with code updates
380         - Bugfix: resolve() did not properly catch invalid IP addresses. Reported by Rick Tortorella.
381
38206.12.2003
383        nikto_core.plugin       1.08
384         - Removed iprint() entirely (finally)
385         - Made "Needs Auth" links active in HTML output
386         
38705.30.2003
388        nikto_core.plugin       1.07
389         - Bugfix:
390
39105.30.2003
392        nikto_core.plugin       1.06
393         - Added number of elapsed seconds to final host/port output
394         - Bugfix: Changed CAN/CVE link to point to cve.mitre.org instead of ICAT
395         - Bugfix: Duplicate port 80 in nmap options if -p not specified but 80 specified in hosts file
396
39705.28.2003
398        nikto_core.plugin       1.05
399         - Bugfix: -update code prevented automatic updates. Found & fixed by Keith Young. Also reported by Paul Worshaw.
400 
40105.27.2003
402        Nikto 1.30 release
403    General changes
404          - removed nikto_google.plugin entirely (may add better plugin later)
405          - major "under the hood" changes to make things easier to maintain, read & modify
406          - killed as many global vars as I could stand in favor of a few global hashes (CLI input, etc.)
407          - added $CURRENT_HOST_ID and $CURRENT_PORT as globals--these are the pointers to "where you are" (mostly as in $TARGETS)
408          - added the ability to have basic conditional items for tests, i.e. "200!index" to designate a response of "200" but the
409            content does not contain "index" (suggested by Paul Woroshow).
410          - added -V option, which displays versions of all code files & databases (suggested by Jericho)
411          - specifying -ssl now forces *all ports* on *all servers* to use ssl.  best that can be done for now.
412          - added multi-host support via a text file with port specification in the file or via CLI
413          - all new save file routines
414          - unbuffered file output to keep partial/cancelled run data
415          - removed the -w option in favor of -F with multiple formats
416          - added support for NTLM authentication
417          - added cgiwrap plugin
418        nikto_core.plugin       1.05
419        - Many updates to support multiple host scans
420        - Added UA for update agents
421        - Changed all %SERVER hash refs to either %CLI or %TARGETS
422        - Removed %BANNERS (now in %TARGETS)
423        - Added set_targets() to handle various target input methods
424        - Bugfix: non-SSL ports not found after first SSL port found on a host
425        - Bugfix: authentication realms were not checked with the proper root if -r was specified on the CLI
426        - Bugfix: can't call 'fprint' if core plugin is not found (duh!). Found by Erwin Paternotte.
427        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin  1.00
428        - added
429        nikto_mutate.plugin     1.05
430        - change for using %CLI
431        nikto_passfiles.plugin  1.01
432        - change for using %CLI
433        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.01
434        - change for using %CLI
435        - renamed from 'nikto_userenum.plugin'
436        nikto_msgs.plugin       1.03
437        - minor changes for multi-host support
438        plugins_order.txt       1.03
439        - removed nikto_google.plugin
440               
44102.23.2003     
442        nikto_core.plugin       1.04
443        - Added a work around for servers that answer with blank www-authenticate headers with invalid id/pass combos
444        nikto_realms.plugin 1.00
445        - Added to distro
446        realms.db       1.00
447        - Added to distro
448        plugins_order.txt       1.02
449        - Added nikto_realms.plugin
450
45101.22.2003
452        nikto_httpoptions.plugin        1.03   
453        - standardized wording, added TRACE option, added more description to WebDAV msgs (thanks Jericho at attrition.org).
454
45501.22.2003
456        nikto_core.plugin       1.03   
457        - fixed a bug with matching proper server categories, thanks to Paul Woroshow.
458
45901.17.2003
460        nikto_core.plugin       1.02   
461        - fixed the GetOptions only looking for "-gener" instead of "-generic", thanks to Michel Arboi
462
46301.02.2003
464        nikto_core.plugin       1.01   
465        - fixed proxy authentication not prompting for -update option
466
46701.01.2003
468        Nikto   1.23
469        - added nikto_plugin_order.txt to force plugin order to something we want rather than alpha
470        - added nikto_core.plugin & removed most functions from nikto.pl
471        - added -cookies option
472        - enhanced db syntax error checking (spurred by syntax problems Thomas Reinke found)
473        - started using the LW 1.6 libraries
474        - fixed infinite loop output problem (no longer wrapping long lines)
475        - removed usage from saved output (too long)
476        - remove nikto_frontpage.plugin and put checks in scan_database.db
477        - moved server categories from scan_database.db to servers.db
478        - got rid of the leading "c," requirement from scan_database.db
479        - added STATIC-COOKIE config item as suggested by Eyal Udassin
480        - made CLI options case sensitive (to support more options, hosts files, etc)
481        - added Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a's Apache user enumeration plugin
482        - added -r (-root) file prepend as suggested by Eyal Udassin
483        - many DB typo fixes from Jay Swofford
484        - fixed a regex bug in nikto_robots.plugin and nikto_apacheusers.plugin
485        - new update location (path) to better support upgrades that don't effect db syntax
486
48708.21.2002
488        Nikto   1.21   
489        - Fixed all the proxy code--none of it was working due to where it was set in the initialization.
490        - Added -update to the help output. Not sure why it wasn't there.
491
49208.12.2002
493        Nikto   1.20
494        - Re-packaged to take out a testing line from LW.pm. Thanks to D Rhoades for the catch
495
49608.11.2002
497        Nikto   1.20   
498        - Moved all mutate options to plugins
499        - Added password file mutate plugin
500        - Added better error messages if problems arise
501        - Test for false-positives on all CGI directories
502        - Added -useproxy CLI
503        - Printing SSL certs the server accepts
504        - Fixed port sorting if -f is used
505        - Forked 1.20DCX edition for DefCon 10 CD: difference is only output
506        - Fixed a bug where "findonly" was referenced as "findports" (thanks J DePriest)
507        - Added properly wrapped text output in saved files
508
50905.25.2002     
510        Nikto   1.100   
511        - stopped nikto from dying if no config.txt file found 
512        - added Apache user enumeration plugin
513        - added robots.txt plugin
514        - set false-positive message to display at end of run as well as during
515        -
51604.23.2002     
517        Nikto   1.10BETA_3     
518        - fixed CAN/CVE links, added BID/CA/MS links (suggested by Jericho).
519        - prints total number of 'issues' found (suggested by Jericho).
520        - fixed proxy usage in the cirt.net update function.
521        - updated to use LW 1.4, which fixes an SSL infinite loop problem.
522        - fixed 401 auth suppression (broken in beta 2).
523        - added robots plugin to examine robots.txt & add items found to the mutate check
524        -
52503.31.2002
526        Nikto   1.10BETA_2     
527        - fixed the config.txt DEFAULTHTTPVER variable setting so it really works
528        - made proxy_check run only once per session
529        - removed all reference to "nikto" in the scan_database.db
530        -
53103.23.2002     
532        Nikto   1.10BETA_1
533        - renamed plugins from .pl to .plugin, just for clarity. but they're still perl files
534        - allowed nikto.pl to update plugins the same as .db files
535        - usage of LW 1.2
536        - countless "under the hood" type things
537        - lowercase-incoming-headers to more easily handle case sensitive nonsense
538        - compartmentalized a LOT more code to make things easier to read
539        - created config.txt file configuration w/o midifying nikto.pl itself
540        - added user_scan_database.db so that it won't get ovwr-written if the user adds checks
541        - enabled RFP's LibWhisker anti-ids options
542        - change "check," to "c," in scan_database, just to save a little bandwidth on cirt.net :)
543        - added plugin to check HTTP methods
544        - created a 'mutate' mode for really brute force finding stuff on servers
545        - added the ability to set default CLI options via config file
546        - added PLUGINDIR config variable
547        - added plugin to check other HTTP headers (just x-powered-by for now)
548        - added ability for nikto to auto-determine ssl v non-ssl on a port
549        - added port scanning ability (with or without nmap)
550        - added ability to send message via the update script's versions.txt file. I don't know why, but it may  be handy to let folks know if a new beta is out, or something.
551        - implemented the virtual host headers as patched by Pasi Eronen
552        -
55301.17.2002
554        Nikto   1.018
555        - Added /mpcgi/ to the @CGIDIRS array based on some suggestions.
556        - Fixed a bug in the auth_check function (thanks RFP), and cleaned up error reporting on failed auths
557        -
55801.12.2002     
559        Nikto   1.017
560        - Fixed a bug where the data portion of a request did not reset to null after some checks (thanks to Phil Brass for pointing me at it & letting me test against his server).
561        -
56201.10.2002
563        Nikto   1.016
564        - Add dump_*hash functions
565        - Added pause (-x) in scan loop
566        - Fixed a bug which caused a major slowdown
567        - Added load_conf for setup for configuration files (future)
568        - Fixed http vs. https links in output files
569        -
57001.08.2002
571        Nikto   1.015
572        - Fixed a bug (?) in Libwhisker PR4 (will check v1 code...)
573        - Corrected an error which caused a few false-positives (404 really IS not found :)
57401.07.2002     
575        Nikto   1.014
576        - Removed comment filtering from lines in scan_database.db to accommodate SSI includes
577        - Fixed quoting removal for data portions in checks (so " is valid).
578        -
57901.06.2002
580        Nikto   1.013   
581        - Made major globabl variable changes, moved tons of them to hashes
582        - Wrote some basic plugin writing documentation & added 'docs' directory
583        -
58401.03.2002
585        Nikto   1.012
586        - Added extended output for scan archival reasons (suggested by Steve Saady)
587        - Changed host auth failure to a warning, not stoppage
588        - Added "data" portion to scan_database.db
589        - Added @IP and @HOSTNAME substitutions for scan_database.db checks (will be replaced by actual IP/hostname)
590        - in case they are needed in the future.
591        - Added JUNK() to scan_database.db checks to facilitate future buffer-overflows (non-DoS), and future DoS plugins
592        - Added Proxy-agent as valid the same as Server result strings
593        - Changed -l to -n ("nolookup") to be more accurate
594        -
59501.02.2002
596        Nikto   1.011
597        - Added proxy auth for db update requests (oops).
598        - Started .xxx version numbering scheme to make life easier
599        - Fixed href tags in HTM output (< and > encoding and target host/ip)
600        - Added "caseless" WWW-Authenticate finding (for iPlanet Proxy)
601        -
60212.31.2001
603        Nikto   1.01
604        - Added regex to remove comments from scan_database.db in case they ever exist
605        - Fixed extra 'Host:' line being sent to server (duh).
606        - Fixed non 'GET' request data posting (duh).
607        - Added -timeout option
608        -
60912.27.2001     
610        Nikto   1.00
611        - Finalized beta version for release
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