Those of you that follow me on twitter may have noticed that yesterday I was posting quite a bit more frequently and most of them contained the word 'test'. I was playing around with twyt and decided to build a curses-based Twitter GUI. I've never done any curses programming before, so this was my way of learning the functionality. I implemented command-line support in a style I found more to my liking (even though twyt already has this) and then started buliding the curses GUI. If I go very far with this, I may eventually rewrite the API to fit in with the rest of my code, but for now I'll use twyt on the backend.
The code is very basic, but already it can do a few things:
- Display latest friends list updates.
- Display recent replies.
- Display recent sent and received DMs.
- Update your status.
- Send a DM.
Unfortunately the next update is most likely a week away, but when I get around to it, I plan on splitting the screen into multiple windows with your current status always displayed, along with a regularly updated friends list. Right now everything is jammed into a single window.
I do need to figure out how to get Twitter to display my client name (apparently I need to contact them for that) but so far, so good. Anyone wishing to take a look at my (very alpha) code, can check it out here.
For those of you wondering about the name... TwCuP kinda reminds me of 'hiccup', so I found it slightly amusing at ~4am when I was trying to come up with a name.
Eventually this will (hopefully) be a client that can be left idling in a screen session... that's my goal anyways.
Two Python libraries have caught my attention lately, the first is lxml and the second is matplotlib. Ideally I wanted to write something short, just to get a feel for the basics of them. The goal was figuring out what I could do quickly so that I could play around with arguments and output, yet still have an actual result. I also wanted a nicely formatted useful XML file to parse. I ended up going with nmap's XML output. I also decided that I would plot the frequency of ports in the file.
Is this useful... perhaps? I could see a sys admin wanting a count of specific open ports on the network or a pen tester wanting to know the most common ports on a target network.
The python script is extremely basic and is called via nmap_port_frequency.py <XML Input> <png Output>. The result is an image similar to this:
The above image is the output from scanning three hosts.
I haven't been blogging much lately (hopefully that will change shortly). However, I wanted to make sure I mentioned this. Python 2.6 has been released. What's new in Python 2.6 can be found here.
This morning I talked about W3AF beta6 being available. Only now did I finally get time to install it... I wanted to test drive the UI, and it ended up being quite the task to get it installed. Part way through I realized that this would be a someone time consuming process and started documenting everything I had to do. I figured that others will most likely want to play with the UI on Windows XP so I'm going to share my documentation:
Installing w3af with UI on Windows XP with Python 2.5
Download pygoogle
Extract pygoogle
From your extracted directory run 'python setup.py install'
Download fpconst
Extract fpconst
From your extracted directory run 'python setup.py install'
Download SOAPpy
Extract SOAPpy
Edit <extractdir>\SOAPpy\Client.py; move the import __futures__ line to Line 1
Edit <extractdir>\SOAPpy\Types.py; move the import __futures__ line to Line 1
Edit <extractdir>\SOAPpy\Server.py; move the import __futures__ line to Line 1
From your extracted directory run 'python setup.py install'
Download gtk+ runtime
File: gtk2-runtime-2.12.1-2007-10-28-ash.exe
Install
Update gtk+ runtime
File: glib-2.16.2.zip
Extract Files
Copy files from \bin over gtk2-runtime install (default: C:\Program Files\GTK2-Runtime\lib)
Install pyGTK files
PyGTK 2.12.1-2
PyGobject 2.14.1-1
PyCairo 1.4.12-2
Download pyOpenSSL
Current Version: 0.7
Install
Download OpenSSL
Current Version: 0.9.8g Light
Install
Download w3af
Extract to directory
Browse to the w3af folder, create a shortcut to file w3af.
Modify shortcut target -- path\to\python25 path\to\w3af -g
Double Click shortcut
