Hari Sekhon wrote: > I can't seem to use --url and --string together. Url seems to make it > not bother checking the string. > > First I test the --string works as follows: > > check_http -S -H www.somedomain.com --string='<html blah blah <title> > The Wrong Nonexistent Web Page</title>...' > > which returns as expected. This is what I want to make sure it will > warn me if it isn't finding exactly what I expect. > > CRITICAL - string not found|time=0.210894s;;;0.000000 size=6403B;;;0 > > > But if I do > > check_http -S -H www.somedomain.com --url="/some/path/" > --string='<html blah blah <title> The Wrong Nonexistent Web > Page</title>...' > > I get > > OK - HTTP/1.1 302 Found - 0.110 second response time > |time=0.110347s;;;0.000000 size=690B;;;0 > > > It doesn't check the string! Instead it just says that because some > page was directed to that everything must be ok... ie False Positive. > > > The bigger picture: > > I am trying to do testing of an https login page and get into a > website. This requires that I log in via ssl and supply a username and > password. The problem is that the login page will redirect to > somewhere regardless of the result. If the login is successful you can > get the internal pages and if unsuccessful it redirects to another > login page. So I really need to get --url and --string working > together to check the actual html. > > I know there is webinject but I'd rather stick to check_http, it's > much more straight forward and webinject's dependencies failed to > install yesterday so I'd rather do this than bother fixing that just > to try it. > > > Any ideas on getting this url and string business to work together? > > > Hari >
I thought this was because of the redirect so I went back to --help and found --onredirect so now when I do --onredirect=follow it works fine and complains about the string. Sorted. Hari ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
