check_http and xml

[gmartin]

If you look at the content of the returned data it appears your call is
failing for a bad license key.  Is that what you are tresting for?

\\Greg



On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Assaf Flatto <nagios at flatto.net> 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 ).
>
>  ./check_http -H some.service.con -s "xml" -u
>
> "xml.aspx?account_code=XXXXXXX&license_code=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&action=lookup&postcode=XXXXXX"
>
> HTTP CRITICAL: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request - string not found - 163 bytes
> in 0.013 second response time |time=0.013409s;;;0.000000 size=163B;;;0
>
> the output of curling (curl -D - $URL ) the page gives this :
>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:35:24 GMT
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET <http://asp.net/>
> X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
> NextAction:
> NextType:
> Prompt:
> ResultType:
> Cache-Control: private
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Content-Length: 356
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <String Server="WEB11" Version="3.0" Date="22/01/2010 11:35:24"
> Duration="0.000s">
>  <Schema Items="2">
>    <Field Name="error_number" />
>    <Field Name="message" />
>  </Schema>
>  <Data Items="1">
>    <Item error_number="6" message="License key was not recognised" />
>  </Data>
>
>
> Does anyone have ideas on how to get xml content check ?
> I looked at the nagiosexchange but did not find anything ( could be i
> was looking in the wrong place/context) .
>
> Thanks
>
> Assaf
>
>
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