From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-12-27T19:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Errors on REXML reading an HTML.

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Lorenzo Dolores <a317412@pjjkp.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm doing a penetration testing with an exploit developed in Ruby
> that used the library rexml. The code is supposed to trigger the
> vulnerability identified as ms10-070.
>
> However rexml fails because the html of the website to evaluate is not
> properly made. This is the error I recibe:

> Please somebody could help me? I'm not very skilled on Ruby to be
> honest, but I tought about replacing REXML for any other library that
> wouldn't trigger this error.

If you want to parse HTML you must replace REXML anyway because it is
an XML parser and not a HTML parser - unless of course someone can
guarantee to you that all pages you want to parse are valid XHTML.  I
suggest nokogiri.

Cheers

robert

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