Known Issues

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bcoles edited this page Jan 26, 2011 · 16 revisions

Known issues or bugs.

WhatWeb

Don't use aggressive modes with website spidering as it will repeat the tests and URL requests.
:regexp matches are case sensitive, you can make then case insensitive by appending i, eg. /foobar/i will match FOObar
The MD5 hashing algorithm is used not for it's security but for it's speed as a hashing algorithm especially compared to SHA1
Redirects without valid certificates return ERROR: EOF error end of file reached
Ruby 1.9 is not supported
Abnormal HTTP headers abort the request, for example :
- Shoutcast Administrator ICY 200 OK ICY 400 Server Full
- SIP SIP/2.0 200 OK SIP/2.0 404 Not Found - Unable to dispatch to user 100

Libraries

Anemone: The Anemone spider doesn't following 302 redirects
Anemone: Timeout settings do not apply to the Anemone spider
Anemone: Meta refresh redirects do not apply to the Anemone spider