Interactive Features

Nikto contains several options which can be changed during an active scan, provided it is running on a system which provides POSIX support (*nix and some other operating systems). On systems without POSIX support, these features will be silently disabled.

During an active scan, pressing any of the keys below will turn on or off the listed feature or perform the listed action. Note that these are case sensitive.

• SPACE - Report current scan status
• v - Turn verbose mode on/off
• d - Turn debug mode on/off
• e - Turn error reporting on/off
• p - Turn progress reporting on/off
• r - Turn redirect display on/off
• c - Turn cookie display on/off
• o - Turn OK display on/off
• a - Turn auth display on/off
• q - Quit
• N - Next host
• P - Pause