check_http can't follow redirect properly, no cookies!

[David Price]

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


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