sqlmapproject/sqlmap · error · SqlmapGenericException

error occurred while running postprocess function '%s' ('%s'

Error message

error occurred while running postprocess function '%s' ('%s')

What it means

Error "error occurred while running postprocess function '%s' ('%s')" thrown in sqlmapproject/sqlmap.

Source

Thrown at lib/request/connect.py:1073

                    warnMsg += "(s)"
                    logger.critical(warnMsg)
                else:
                    logger.debug(warnMsg)
                return Connect._retryProxy(**kwargs)
            elif kb.testMode or kb.multiThreadMode:
                logger.critical(warnMsg)
                return None, None, None
            else:
                raise SqlmapConnectionException(warnMsg)

        finally:
            for function in kb.postprocessFunctions:
                try:
                    page, responseHeaders, code = function(page, responseHeaders, code)
                except Exception as ex:
                    errMsg = "error occurred while running postprocess "
                    errMsg += "function '%s' ('%s')" % (function.__name__, getSafeExString(ex))
                    raise SqlmapGenericException(errMsg)

            if isinstance(page, six.binary_type):
                if HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_TYPE in (responseHeaders or {}) and not re.search(TEXT_CONTENT_TYPE_REGEX, responseHeaders[HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_TYPE]):
                    page = six.text_type(page, errors="ignore")
                else:
                    page = getUnicode(page)

            for _ in (getattr(conn, "redcode", None), code):
                if _ is not None and _ in conf.abortCode:
                    errMsg = "aborting due to detected HTTP code '%d'" % _
                    singleTimeLogMessage(errMsg, logging.CRITICAL)
                    raise SystemExit

            # decode a gRPC-Web response to readable text so the oracle/error/inband paths see the
            # message fields + trailer (grpc-message) instead of an opaque base64 blob. Headers are
            # passed so a trailers-only error (empty body, grpc-status/message in headers) is still surfaced
            if kb.postHint == POST_HINT.GRPC_WEB:
                page = grpcDecodeResponse(page, responseHeaders)

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at lib/request/connect.py:1073 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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