check_http - user+password - string required

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tom Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:14 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_http - user+password - string required
> 
> Hi
> 
> Trying to get check_http to check a site that requires authorization
and
> also the check needs to expect a certain string back in the response.
> 
> So far i have
> 
> ./check_http -H www.foo.net -u /some/where/ -a user:pass
> OK - HTTP/1.1 302 Found - 0.087 second response time
> |time=0.086617s;;;0.000000 size=491B;;;0
> 
> but what can i add to this to make it so that a string i expect is
> checked. I hae tried all sensible options i can tell from the help.

The URL you're checking is returning a 302 REDIRECT. There is no HTML to
look at. You'll probably want to add '--onredirect=follow' and either a
-s, -R or -e string check based on your needs.

--
Marc


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