David Price wrote: > Hari Sekhon wrote: >> Ton Voon wrote: >>> No cookies in check_http, I'm afraid. It would be a nightmare >>> enhance it to hold sessions. >>> >>> If you are good with perl, look at WWW::Mechanize. This allows you >>> to store cookies and interact with a website as if you were a >>> browser. We use this to login to monitor a betting site and retrieve >>> funds information. >>> >>> On 17 Aug 2006, at 12:18, Hari Sekhon wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I've got check_http doing a login which works fine and I'm using >>>> the --onredirect=follow to make sure I can fetch the secured page >>>> it's redirected to. >>>> >>>> The problem is that when the page is fetched it is fetched without >>>> the previously supplied credentials and therefore I get a login >>>> page instead of the page within the secure area. >>>> >>>> I really really need to get the page in the secure area. Does >>>> anybody know how to make it store and use the credentials for the >>>> redirect. It's obviously not using it's cookie and I've looked >>>> through the --help but it makes not mention of cookies... >>>> >>> >>> http://www.altinity.com >>> T: +44 (0)870 787 9243 >>> F: +44 (0)845 280 1725 >>> Skype: tonvoon >>> >>> >> >> that's a real pain, but I understand. Curl can actually deal with >> cookies so I may end up rustling up a quick script in bash with that, >> I've already done some cli tests with it and it works nicely, but >> longer term I think I'll have to brush up my perl (I know the very >> basics) and do something with Mechanize. I think that this will be a >> good opportunity for me to do something useful in Perl. >> >> Thanks for the pointer. >> >> Hari >> >> > > Check out the WebInject Nagios plugin. I have it setup to check > several pages in a secure website and it handles cookies. It could > save you the hassle of creating your our script. > > http://www.webinject.org/plugin.html > > David Price > > thanks, looks like I'm back to the drawing board, I guess I'll just fix the broken dependency (it's a bug) and then give webinject a try....
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