check_http can't follow redirect properly, no cookies!

[Hari Sekhon]

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...
>>
>
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>

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
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