the gaierror has been taken care of once and for all, if it fails it's not going to try and find the IP address (issue #215), fixes and issue with chunked encoding errors, about 99% of the time when you try to request again it will work, so that's what we're gonna do (issue #214)

etc/checksum/md5sum.md5

@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./lib/attacks/__init__.py
 7bc7a6f3e85651aab3588f087563eded  ./lib/attacks/whois_lookup/__init__.py
 8ec72bb33df998e32b925e3060d9d17a  ./lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py
 67ac65be1b4394ad80ec0fd3472c5309  ./lib/attacks/admin_panel_finder/__init__.py
-75652b6197e9775e58e177f5e2fc680c  ./lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py
-75652b6197e9775e58e177f5e2fc680c  ./lib/attacks/nmap_scan/__init__.py
+2904026c0a34de2bd2eef63c75e3f67e  ./lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py
+7642d078fe304a7ca8bfaaa070a0cb31  ./lib/attacks/nmap_scan/__init__.py
 216999fa0e84866d5c1d96d5676034e4  ./lib/attacks/nmap_scan/nmap_opts.py
 888686098a0850750f2435d0e1645944  ./lib/header_check/__init__.py
 0721c655d433dbc170756f3e40a786cf  ./lib/core/common.py
 4433353fb5c55578391d8b4006191ee8  ./lib/core/errors.py
 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./lib/core/__init__.py
-5f7fd52c614f1a0f280191592d4b08b3  ./lib/core/settings.py
+1e26c0e7492ca6a18a10e70369c55e99  ./lib/core/settings.py
 801a4f7ac892b74676c649bd4844ccdb  ./lib/core/decorators.py
 9a02e5b913d210350545ac26510a63c9  ./var/search/__init__.py
 0545ee54ade186681b25d157fb32f350  ./var/search/selenium_search.py

lib/attacks/nmap_scan/__init__.py

@@ -106,15 +106,15 @@ def perform_port_scan(url, scanner=NmapHook, **kwargs):
         lib.core.settings.logger.info(lib.core.settings.set_color(
             "attempting to find IP address for hostname '{}'...".format(url)
         ))
-        if "www" not in url:
-            url = "www.{}".format(url)
+
         try:
             found_ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(url)
         except socket.gaierror:
-            found_ip_address = socket.gethostbyname_ex(url)
-        lib.core.settings.logger.info(lib.core.settings.set_color(
-            "found IP address for given URL -> '{}'...".format(found_ip_address), level=25
-        ))
+            lib.core.settings.logger.fatal(lib.core.settings.set_color(
+                "failed to gather IP address for URL '{}'...".format(url)
+            ))
+            return
+
         if verbose:
             lib.core.settings.logger.debug(lib.core.settings.set_color(
                 "checking for nmap on your system...", level=10

lib/attacks/xss_scan/__init__.py

@@ -114,7 +114,15 @@ def scan_xss(url, agent=None, proxy=None):
         lib.core.common.HTTP_HEADER.CONNECTION: "close",
         lib.core.common.HTTP_HEADER.USER_AGENT: user_agent
     }
-    xss_request = requests.get(url, proxies=config_proxy, headers=config_headers)
+
+    try:
+        xss_request = requests.get(url, proxies=config_proxy, headers=config_headers)
+    except requests.exceptions.ChunkedEncodingError:
+        lib.core.settings.logger.warning(lib.core.settings.set_color(
+            "encoding seems to be messed up, trying the request again...", level=30
+        ))
+        xss_request = requests.get(url, proxies=config_proxy, headers=config_headers)
+
     status = xss_request.status_code
     html_data = xss_request.content
     query = find_xss_script(url)

lib/core/settings.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ CLONE = "https://github.com/ekultek/zeus-scanner.git"
 ISSUE_LINK = "https://github.com/ekultek/zeus-scanner/issues"
 
 # current version <major.minor.commit.patch ID>
-VERSION = "1.3.12.{}".format(PATCH_ID)
+VERSION = "1.3.13.{}".format(PATCH_ID)
 
 # colors to output depending on the version
 VERSION_TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 92, "other": 30}
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ SQLI_FOUND_FILENAME = "sqli-sites.log"
 CLICKJACKING_FILENAME = "{}-clickjacking.html"
 
 # filename for gists log file
-GIST_FILENAME = "gist-match-{}.log"
+GIST_FILENAME = "{}-gist-match.log"
 
 # filename for whois lookup log file
 WHOIS_LOOKUP_FILENAME = "{}-whois.json"