Help Needed | Web Authentication

Matthew J. Salerno vagabond_king at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 18 22:20:51 CEST 2010


The login mechanism probably doesn't work with the plugin.  The plugin probably uses HTTP based auth rather than form based.  Are you really trying to check fb? 

"Himanshu Arora" <himanshuarora7 at gmail.com> wrote:

>It would be really appreciated if somone can help me out setting up nagios
>monitoring for a website or a secured website.
>
>I just wanted to match the string after the website is authenticated.
> for eg: i am trying to setup the monitoring for facebook.com, and the
>command i am using for this is-
>
>./check_http -H facebook.com -u "http://www.facebook.com" -a
>myfbusername:myfbpassword -s "Facebook helps you connect" -f follow
>
>Plugin responds back --- HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 27441 bytes in 2.614
>second response time |time=2.613975s;;;0.000000 size=27441B;;;0
>
>even if the password is incorrect i gives me same response because it is
>verifying the string and responds back correctly.
>
>So i need to know what am i doing wrong here or may be i am not using the
>right plugin to do so because as i know its not the "basic authentication"
>that i am going through.
>
>Need your help, trying to get this done from couple of days now... but not
>getting it solved.
>
>Please help or suggest... Thanks
>
>
>Himanshu
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