Known Issues

WhatWeb

• The MD5 hashing algorithm is used not for its security but for its speed as a hashing algorithm, especially compared to SHA1
• Redirects without valid certificates return ERROR: EOF error end of file reached
• Colored output is not supported in Windows.

Libraries

• Net/HTTP: Non-standard HTTP headers abort the request, for example :
  • Shoutcast Administrator ICY 200 OK ICY 400 Server Full
  • SOAPAction Required HTTP/1.0 427 Unauthorized
  • SIP SIP/2.0 200 OK SIP/2.0 404 Not Found - Unable to dispatch to user 100
• Net/HTTP: URLs with sub-domains which contain underscore characters will fail and return ERROR: the scheme http does not accept registry part: followed by the URL.

Issues with WhatWeb <= 0.4.7 (current stable)

• Ruby 1.9 is not supported. See Issue# 31
• Anemone: The Anemone spider doesn't follow HTTP 30x and meta refresh redirects
• Anemone: Timeout settings do not apply to the Anemone spider
• Net/HTTP: URLs containing multi-byte characters (non-English UTF-8 characters - umlaut, acute accent, etc) are not supported by the library. Example: "http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/65068764/我的头åƒ�_normal.png";