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nikto

Nikto web server scanner

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What it is

Nikto web server scanner

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Using HTTP meta-headers is actually something we seem to have forgotten how to do. The one that annoys me most is the accept-language header which is almost entirely ignored in…

dijit used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-01-19 11:13:01 UTC to 2025-03-05 13:10:18 UTC.

012024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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dijit·Mar 5, 2025Recommendation phrase
Using HTTP meta-headers is actually something we seem to have forgotten how to do. The one that annoys me most is the accept-language header which is almost entirely ignored in favour of GeoIP lookups to figure out regionality... which I find super odd; as if people are walking around using a browser in a language they don't speak. (or, an operating system configured for a language they don't speak). ETAG's though, are a bit fraught- if you're a company, a security scan will fire if an etag is detected because you might be able to figure out the inode on the filesystem based on it... which, idk why that's a security problem eitherway[0], but it's common for there to be false-positives[1]... which makes people not respect the header. Last-Modified should work though, I love the idea of checking headers and not content. I think people don't
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care to imagine the computer doing as little as possible to get the job done, and instead use the near unlimited computing power to just avoid thinking about consequences. [0]: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/vulnerabilitie... [1]: https://github.com/sullo/nikto/issues/469
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