host The host you want to contact (i.e. www.yahoo.com)
This should never contain anything but a host name, do not put something like www.google.com/search here, just put www.google.com
url the subdirectory on the host you want (i.e. /search.cgi)
method get/post/questionmark (see documentation)
arguments The arguments to the web page.
Text and checkbox inputs can be left out but radio button and dropdown menus have to be included as they always have a value. To be absolutly safe you can include everything except the submit inputs.
columnsThe columns that this scan returns
defaultxThe default value of argument x (1 indexed)
prefixThe text that marks the start of the table
terminationThe text that marks the end of the table
rowprefix The text that marks the beginning of each row
rowterm The text that marks the end of each row
columnincludesignature Include the signature for all columns
ColName_prefix The text that marks the beginning of the column named ColName
ColName_term The text that marks the end of the column named ColName
ColName_transform A perlesque transform, s/a/b would replace all a's in ColName with b's
ColName_includeprefix Include the prefix and term of this column in the result
filterIgnore any rows found that have the text specified in them
bracketIf this is found at the beginning of a column it must also be at the end


host This is the host that you want your wrapper to contact. This is not a fully specified url. If you wanted to look at the page www.google.com/linux/search.cgi you would specify www.google.com here.
url This is the resource that you want to retrieve on the remote host. If you wanted www.google.com/linux/search.cgi you would specify /linux/search.cgi here.
method
  • get
  • post
  • questionmark This tells tess what method you want to use to send the query data to the remote host. There are currently three options.
    get performs an html get request by appending &property=value for each argument.
    post will create a post string out of all the arguments and post it to the server.
    questionmark will simply append the argument(s) after a questionmark to the url string. If you know of another way of sending query data send it in, we would certainly like to support as many ways of doing this as possible.
    • arguments A comma delimited list of arguments that you want to send in the query. These should be obtained from the html form that sends in the query you want to run. Text inputs need not be specified, however, checkboxes, radio buttons, and select menus usually all have to be specified.
    columns A comma delimited list of the coulmns that this scan will return. You must specify delimeters for all the columns in this list
    defaultx The default value for argument x. This list is 1 indexed so if your list looks like argument=arg1,arg2,arg3 then default1=blah sets arg1's default value to blah.
    prefix A regular expression specifying the text that delimits the start of the TeSS table.
    termination A regular expression specifying the text that delimits the end of the TeSS table.
    rowprefix A regular expression that specifies the text that starts each row. This will only be searched for after the prefix text has be found and after the prefix appears in the result text.
    rowterm A regular expression that specifies the text that ends each row. After the start text is found the end text is searched for and everything in between is considered a row and searched through for columns.
    columnincludesignature Tells TeSS that it should include the signature for all columns.
    For example:
    If you had colname_prefix=a and colname_term=b and the row looked like
    this is a really big row
    then if columnincludesignature is not specified colname would be 
     really
    but if it was specified it would be 
    a really b