check_http --url and --string don't work together?
Hari Sekhon
hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 17 12:05:23 CEST 2006
Hari Sekhon wrote:
> I can't seem to use --url and --string together. Url seems to make it
> not bother checking the string.
>
> First I test the --string works as follows:
>
> check_http -S -H www.somedomain.com --string='<html blah blah <title>
> The Wrong Nonexistent Web Page</title>...'
>
> which returns as expected. This is what I want to make sure it will
> warn me if it isn't finding exactly what I expect.
>
> CRITICAL - string not found|time=0.210894s;;;0.000000 size=6403B;;;0
>
>
> But if I do
>
> check_http -S -H www.somedomain.com --url="/some/path/"
> --string='<html blah blah <title> The Wrong Nonexistent Web
> Page</title>...'
>
> I get
>
> OK - HTTP/1.1 302 Found - 0.110 second response time
> |time=0.110347s;;;0.000000 size=690B;;;0
>
>
> It doesn't check the string! Instead it just says that because some
> page was directed to that everything must be ok... ie False Positive.
>
>
> The bigger picture:
>
> I am trying to do testing of an https login page and get into a
> website. This requires that I log in via ssl and supply a username and
> password. The problem is that the login page will redirect to
> somewhere regardless of the result. If the login is successful you can
> get the internal pages and if unsuccessful it redirects to another
> login page. So I really need to get --url and --string working
> together to check the actual html.
>
> I know there is webinject but I'd rather stick to check_http, it's
> much more straight forward and webinject's dependencies failed to
> install yesterday so I'd rather do this than bother fixing that just
> to try it.
>
>
> Any ideas on getting this url and string business to work together?
>
>
> Hari
>
I thought this was because of the redirect so I went back to --help and
found --onredirect so now when I do --onredirect=follow it works fine
and complains about the string.
Sorted.
Hari
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