RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS

[Anthony Franklin]

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Correction:  Rebol I have does not support https directly.  You have to read from a saved file reproduced via your server’s browser at whatever interval you pick with your scheduling program.   Anthony Franklin, Network Engineer Information Technology Services University of West Florida Pensacola, Florida 32514 850.474.3243 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Jenney Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS   Hi Gang,   While it's not a plug-in for WhatsUp, I'd recommend looking at COAST WebMaster (www.coast.com) for web content content scanning.  It's a very effective tool and the fact that I helped define and position it has nothing to do with my recommendation ;-)  There's a free 15 day trial version available on their site, give it a shot. Cheers! pete.;1 -)-------------- Peter H. Jenney Product Management  Ipswitch 10 Maguire Rd. Lexington, MA 02421 http://www.ipswitch.com Direct: +1 (781) 676.5755 Mobile: +1 (603) 264.3961 [EMAIL PROTECTED]     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Franklin Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS I have a way use What's Up Gold, easily, to monitor sites that have re-directs, which would normally cause the content scan to fail, and monitor ssl sites for content, using a small programming language called Rebol.    Go to www.rebol.com and see how small (700k), but yet how powerfull this programming language is.  The Rebol community is pretty large, so there are many scripts out there for a lot of uses, but none specific to What's Up Gold, yet. Once someone has said they have taken the time to do that, or just read about it, I will take the time to post an awesome interim solution the What's Up community has been awaiting.    The completed script is around 10 lines or less.  You will be amazed on how much such a small programming language can do.   At least try it on a development box.  I have mentioned Rebol over time in the forum.  I am pushing this so hard because once the What's Up community starts using it, we as a communitiy will find even greater uses and someone will design scripts that will solve other peoples issues and save us all time and effort without installing large programming language like Perl, and without writing nearly as much code.     -----Original Message----- From: Tate, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 3/5/2004 9:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS 2nd that...   -----Original Message----- From: brandon.baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:56 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS Virgil,   That only checks port availability.  A 404 error would show as up.  HTTPS content scan is what we are all clamoring for.   Brandon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS HTTPS is a standard TCP service running on port 443 - you shouldn't need a separate plugin to monitor it.  Just create a custom TCP/IP service and set the port to 443.  It should work fine. - virgil "Anderson, Eric E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/2004 06:22 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc   Fax to   Subject [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS   I know many have asked and I've tried creating a VB plug-in that would permit HTTPS monitoring without much luck.  A while back an individual was able to create a VB plug-in (the first in history) and provided the source code.  I didn't have much luck with it either as I wasn't even able to get the compiled version installed correctly on a couple of systems to reverse engineer and tweak.  Mostly due to available time. Does anyone know of a 3rd party plug-in (somewhat highly configurable) or otherwise that would monitor HTTPS sites?  Would someone with knowledge be willing to create one as a project for a fee?