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Introduction

• Overview & Description
• History & Trivia

Installation

• PERL (*nix generic installation)
• Docker
• Windows
• Kali (Special Notes)

Usage

• Basic Testing
• Multiple Port Testing
• Multiple Host Testing
• Using a Proxy
• Interactive Features
• Updating

Command Line Options

• Annotated Option List
• Verbosity & Debug Output
• Scan Tuning
• Saving Requests/Responses & Replaying

Plugins

• Selecting Plugins
• Plugin list

Configuration Files

• nikto.conf
• Config Variables

Output and Reports

• Export Formats
• HTML and XML Customization

Test Writing

• Scan Database Field Values
• User-Defined Tests
• Scan Database Syntax

Plugin Writing

• Initialization Phase
• Start hook
• Reconnaissance Phase
• Scan Phase
• Prefetch hook
• Postfetch hook
• Reporting Phase
• Data Structures
• Standard Methods
• Global Variables
• Test Identifiers

Troubleshooting

• SOCKS Proxies
• Debugging
• Assistance

Licenses

• Nikto Licensing

Credits

• Nikto
• Special Thanks

Integrations/Related Projects

• Faraday
• Seccubus
• Integration with Nessus
• (Nikto Batch Scanner)[https://github.com/zerstoeren/nikto_batch_scanner]