sqlmapproject/sqlmap · error · NotSupportedError

the server answered with the wide ROWFMT2 format

Error message

the server answered with the wide ROWFMT2 format

What it means

Error "the server answered with the wide ROWFMT2 format" thrown in sqlmapproject/sqlmap.

Source

Thrown at extra/dbwire/sybase.py:396

                status, _transtate, count = struct.unpack("<HHi", data[off:off + 8]); off += 8
                if status & _DONE_COUNT:
                    affected = count if affected is None else affected + count
            elif token == _TOKEN_EED:
                length = _u16(data, off)
                number, severity, message = _eed(data, off + 2, self._codec)
                if severity > 10:               # 10 and below are informational (e.g. 'Changed database')
                    error = (number, "(remote) %s" % message)
                off += 2 + length
            elif token == _TOKEN_ENVCHANGE:
                length = _u16(data, off)
                if _u8(data, off + 2) == _ENV_PACKET_SIZE:
                    size = data[off + 4:off + 4 + _u8(data, off + 3)]
                    self._chunk = max(_LOGIN_CHUNK, int(size) - _HEADER_SIZE)
                off += 2 + length
            elif token == _TOKEN_RETURNSTATUS:
                off += 4
            elif token == _TOKEN_ROWFMT2:
                raise NotSupportedError("the server answered with the wide ROWFMT2 format")
            else:
                off += 2 + _u16(data, off)      # every other TDS 5 token is 2-byte length prefixed
        if error is not None:
            if login:
                raise OperationalError(error[1])
            _raise_server_error(*error)
        return description, rows, affected

def connect(host=None, port=5000, user=None, password=None, database=None, connect_timeout=None, **kwargs):
    charset, codec = kwargs.get("charset", "utf8"), "utf-8"
    try:
        sock = socket.create_connection((host or "localhost", int(port or 5000)), timeout=connect_timeout)
        keepalive(sock)
    except (socket.error, socket.timeout) as ex:
        raise OperationalError("could not connect to '%s:%s' (%s)" % (host, port, ex))

    connection = Connection(sock, codec)
    try:

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at extra/dbwire/sybase.py:396 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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