check_http and xml

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Fri Jan 22 14:30:11 CET 2010


On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I am trying to verify the working of a web service which output is a xml 
> content .
> 
> I thought that using the check_http -s or -e will help me do the 
> verifications by searching for a string in the xml however when trying 
> the test , the result comes back as a 404 ( classified info changed to 
> XXX ).

If you add a '-v' flag to your check_http test below,or check your server logs, you'll see why you're getting the 400 back.

> ./check_http -H some.service.con -s "xml" -u 
> "xml.aspx?account_code=XXXXXXX&license_code=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&action=lookup&postcode=XXXXXX"

I'm quite sure this should be "/xml.aspx?account_code..."

--
Marc


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