refactoring the code changes

cmd/cariddi/main.go

@@ -69,26 +69,31 @@ func main() {
 	// Setup the config according to the flags that were
 	// passed via the CLI
 	config := &crawler.Scan{
-		Delay:          flags.Delay,
-		Concurrency:    flags.Concurrency,
-		Ignore:         flags.Ignore,
-		IgnoreTxt:      flags.IgnoreTXT,
-		Cache:          flags.Cache,
-		JSON:           flags.JSON,
-		Timeout:        flags.Timeout,
-		Intensive:      flags.Intensive,
-		Rua:            flags.Rua,
-		Proxy:          flags.Proxy,
-		SecretsFlag:    flags.Secrets,
-		Plain:          flags.Plain,
-		EndpointsFlag:  flags.Endpoints,
-		FileType:       flags.Extensions,
-		ErrorsFlag:     flags.Errors,
-		InfoFlag:       flags.Info,
-		Debug:          flags.Debug,
-		UserAgent:      flags.UserAgent,
-		StoreResp:      flags.StoreResp,
-		StoredRespPath: flags.StoredRespDir,
+		Delay:         flags.Delay,
+		Concurrency:   flags.Concurrency,
+		Ignore:        flags.Ignore,
+		IgnoreTxt:     flags.IgnoreTXT,
+		Cache:         flags.Cache,
+		JSON:          flags.JSON,
+		Timeout:       flags.Timeout,
+		Intensive:     flags.Intensive,
+		Rua:           flags.Rua,
+		Proxy:         flags.Proxy,
+		SecretsFlag:   flags.Secrets,
+		Plain:         flags.Plain,
+		EndpointsFlag: flags.Endpoints,
+		FileType:      flags.Extensions,
+		ErrorsFlag:    flags.Errors,
+		InfoFlag:      flags.Info,
+		Debug:         flags.Debug,
+		UserAgent:     flags.UserAgent,
+		StoreResp:     flags.StoreResp,
+	}
+
+	config.OutputDir = output.CariddiOutputFolder
+	if flags.StoredRespDir != "" {
+		config.OutputDir = flags.StoredRespDir
+		config.StoreResp = true
 	}
 
 	// Read the targets from standard input.
@@ -119,18 +124,18 @@ func main() {
 	// Create output files if needed (txt / html).
 	config.Txt = ""
 	if flags.TXTout != "" {
-		config.Txt = fileUtils.CreateOutputFile(flags.TXTout, "results", "txt", config.StoredRespPath)
+		config.Txt = fileUtils.CreateOutputFile(flags.TXTout, "results", "txt", config.OutputDir)
 	}
 
 	var ResultHTML = ""
 	if flags.HTMLout != "" {
-		ResultHTML = fileUtils.CreateOutputFile(flags.HTMLout, "", "html", config.StoredRespPath)
+		ResultHTML = fileUtils.CreateOutputFile(flags.HTMLout, "", "html", config.OutputDir)
 		output.BannerHTML(ResultHTML)
 		output.HeaderHTML("Results", ResultHTML)
 	}
 
 	if config.StoreResp {
-		fileUtils.CreateIndexOutputFile("index.responses.txt", config.StoredRespPath)
+		fileUtils.CreateIndexOutputFile("index.responses.txt", config.OutputDir)
 	}
 
 	// Read headers if needed
@@ -168,13 +173,13 @@ func main() {
 	// IF TXT OUTPUT >
 	if flags.TXTout != "" {
 		output.TxtOutput(flags, finalResults, finalSecret, finalEndpoints,
-			finalExtensions, finalErrors, finalInfos)
+			finalExtensions, finalErrors, finalInfos, config.OutputDir)
 	}
 
 	// IF HTML OUTPUT >
 	if flags.HTMLout != "" {
 		output.HTMLOutput(flags, ResultHTML, finalResults, finalSecret,
-			finalEndpoints, finalExtensions, finalErrors, finalInfos)
+			finalEndpoints, finalExtensions, finalErrors, finalInfos, config.OutputDir)
 	}
 
 	// If needed print secrets.

internal/file/file.go

@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@ const (
 	Permission0644 = 0644
 )
 
-// constant defined in output.go as well, for circular dependency
-const (
-	CariddiOutputFolder = "output-cariddi"
-)
-
 // CreateOutputFolder creates the output folder
 // If it fails exits with an error message.
 func CreateOutputFolder(outputDir string) {
@@ -77,10 +72,6 @@ func CreateHostOutputFolder(host string, outputDir string) {
 // if no cariddi creates it.
 // Whenever an instruction fails, it exits with an error message.
 func CreateOutputFile(target string, subcommand string, format string, outputDir string) string {
-	if outputDir == "" {
-		outputDir = CariddiOutputFolder
-	}
-
 	target = ReplaceBadCharacterOutput(target)
 
 	var filename string
@@ -129,10 +120,6 @@ func CreateOutputFile(target string, subcommand string, format string, outputDir
 // already exists, if no cariddi creates it.
 // Whenever an instruction fails, it exits with an error message.
 func CreateIndexOutputFile(filename string, outputDir string) {
-	if outputDir == "" {
-		outputDir = CariddiOutputFolder
-	}
-
 	_, err := os.Stat(filename)
 
 	if os.IsNotExist(err) {

pkg/crawler/colly.go

@@ -136,15 +136,9 @@ func New(scan *Scan) *Results {
 
 		var outputPath string
 
-		if scan.StoreResp || len(scan.StoredRespPath) > 0 {
-			outputDir := scan.StoredRespPath
-
-			if outputDir == "" {
-				outputDir = output.CariddiOutputFolder
-			}
-
+		if scan.StoreResp {
 			var err error
-			outputPath, err = output.StoreHTTPResponse(r, outputDir)
+			outputPath, err = output.StoreHTTPResponse(r, scan.OutputDir)
 			if err != nil {
 				log.Println(err)
 			}

pkg/crawler/options.go

@@ -39,27 +39,27 @@ type Results struct {
 
 type Scan struct {
 	// Flags
-	Cache          bool
-	Debug          bool
-	EndpointsFlag  bool
-	ErrorsFlag     bool
-	InfoFlag       bool
-	Intensive      bool
-	Plain          bool
-	Rua            bool
-	SecretsFlag    bool
-	Ignore         string
-	IgnoreTxt      string
-	JSON           bool
-	HTML           string
-	Proxy          string
-	Target         string
-	Txt            string
-	UserAgent      string
-	FileType       int
-	Headers        map[string]string
-	StoreResp      bool
-	StoredRespPath string
+	Cache         bool
+	Debug         bool
+	EndpointsFlag bool
+	ErrorsFlag    bool
+	InfoFlag      bool
+	Intensive     bool
+	Plain         bool
+	Rua           bool
+	SecretsFlag   bool
+	Ignore        string
+	IgnoreTxt     string
+	JSON          bool
+	HTML          string
+	Proxy         string
+	Target        string
+	Txt           string
+	UserAgent     string
+	FileType      int
+	Headers       map[string]string
+	StoreResp     bool
+	OutputDir     string
 
 	// Settings
 	Concurrency int

pkg/output/output.go

@@ -52,12 +52,7 @@ func PrintSimpleOutput(out []string) {
 // Actually it manages everything related to TXT output.
 func TxtOutput(flags input.Input, finalResults []string, finalSecret []scanner.SecretMatched,
 	finalEndpoints []scanner.EndpointMatched, finalExtensions []scanner.FileTypeMatched,
-	finalErrors []scanner.ErrorMatched, finalInfos []scanner.InfoMatched) {
-
-	outputDir := CariddiOutputFolder
-	if flags.StoredRespDir != "" {
-		outputDir = flags.StoredRespDir
-	}
+	finalErrors []scanner.ErrorMatched, finalInfos []scanner.InfoMatched, outputDir string) {
 
 	exists, err := fileUtils.ElementExists(outputDir)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -130,12 +125,7 @@ func TxtOutput(flags input.Input, finalResults []string, finalSecret []scanner.S
 // Actually it manages everything related to HTML output.
 func HTMLOutput(flags input.Input, resultFilename string, finalResults []string, finalSecret []scanner.SecretMatched,
 	finalEndpoints []scanner.EndpointMatched, finalExtensions []scanner.FileTypeMatched,
-	finalErrors []scanner.ErrorMatched, finalInfos []scanner.InfoMatched) {
-
-	outputDir := CariddiOutputFolder
-	if flags.StoredRespDir != "" {
-		outputDir = flags.StoredRespDir
-	}
+	finalErrors []scanner.ErrorMatched, finalInfos []scanner.InfoMatched, outputDir string) {
 
 	exists, err := fileUtils.ElementExists(outputDir)