check_http can't follow redirect properly, no cookies!

[Hari Sekhon]

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....


-h



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