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Basic HTTP authentication is what you would use if you were password
protecting a web page using an .htaccess file. Since Facebook does not
use basic HTTP authentication, Facebook is ignoring the login and
password you are sending it and is just displaying the standard login
page (in this situation the check_http plugin will not work with the
parameters you are sending it). To verify login access to a site like
Facebook you will need to configure the check to run the same way that
the browser would. That means you must get the variable names from the
login form (view the source code and get *all* of the form parameters
that are contained in the login form, including the hidden ones) and
populate them with the required values. Those parameters then need to
be sent by either a "GET" request and/or a "POST" request (using
key=value pairs joined by an "&", e.g.
"login=myfbusername&pass=myfbpassword"), depending on how
Facebook's login page is configured. (You will need to be aware that if
the names of the form fields ever change you must update your check to
match them.) For "GET" requests, use the "-u" parameter to populate the
fields, and for "POST" requests, use the "-P" parameter.<br>
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Also, if you are monitoring a Facebook login/pass by repeatedly logging
into it, it is possible that you might set off a warning flag in some
Facebook internal system that monitors for automated logins. If it is
for some other site, make sure that the code on that site will not have
any problems with constantly repeating logins.<br>
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On 08/18/2010 03:56 PM, Himanshu Arora wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTi=+2joWfdk4NEwUeag1Vif9BCagQYC6BM_Su+tJ@mail.gmail.com"
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<div dir="ltr">It would be really appreciated if somone can help me
out setting up nagios monitoring for a website or a secured website.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I just wanted to match the string after the website is
authenticated.</div>
<div>
for eg: i am trying to setup the monitoring for <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://facebook.com">facebook.com</a>,
and the command i am using for this is-</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>./check_http -H <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://facebook.com">facebook.com</a> -u "<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.facebook.com">http://www.facebook.com</a>"
-a myfbusername:myfbpassword -s "Facebook helps you connect" -f follow</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>even if the password is incorrect i gives me same response
because it is verifying the string and responds back correctly.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Need your help, trying to get this done from couple of days
now... but not getting it solved.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Please help or suggest... Thanks</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Himanshu</div>
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