[Nikto-discuss] Nikto and HTTP Not Authorized

[Evgeniy Arbatov]

Hello,

I have a small issue with HTTP authentication and Nikto. When I am
running this command:

$ perl nikto.pl -nolookup -nossl -port 80 -Plugins ALL -h 10.0.0.1 -id
UserName:passWoRD

I do not see any authentication attempts with Wireshark. This is the
dump of the request:

HEAD / HTTP/1.1

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Length: 0

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 (Nikto/2.1.1) (Evasions:None) (Test:Port Check)

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Host:  10.0.0.1


HTTP/1.0 401 Not Authorized

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="xxxxxxx"

But there is no Authorization: Basic 'base-64 encoded
username&passwod' sent by the client. What am I missing?

I am using Nikto 2.1.1 and have run the $perl nikto.pl -update.

Thank you in advance!

Evgeniy