Running a Web Server

It is also possible to run a web server that provides this tool's functionality to clients over the network. src/search_vulns/web_server.py contains a working example using Flask. Depending on your environment, you may want to modify the server IP and port at the end of this file. To run a simple Flask web server, just run:

python3 -m search_vulns.web_server

Furthermore, you can use gunicorn to make the web server more scalable; for example by running:

gunicorn --worker-class=gevent --worker-connections=50 --workers=3 --bind '0.0.0.0:8000' search_vulns.wsgi:app

You can read more about choosing good gunicorn settings for your system here. Note, however, that this tool is quite CPU intensive, meaning that scalability is somewhat limited.

Finally, you can also use Nginx as a reverse proxy. A sample configuration file is provided in web_server_files/nginx.conf.sample. Again, you may have to adjust this to your needs. When using Nginx, make sure you have the app running at the configured endpoint(s). For the sample configuration file, for example, you would have to run something similar to the following:

gunicorn --worker-class=gevent --worker-connections=50 --workers=3 --bind 'unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock' search_vulns.wsgi:app