<div>If you look at the content of the returned data it appears your call is failing for a bad license key. Is that what you are tresting for?</div> <div> \\Greg </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Assaf Flatto <<a href="mailto:nagios@flatto.net">nagios@flatto.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hello I am trying to verify the working of a web service which output is a xml content . I thought that using the check_http -s or -e will help me do the verifications by searching for a string in the xml however when trying the test , the result comes back as a 404 ( classified info changed to XXX ). ./check_http -H some.service.con -s "xml" -u "xml.aspx?account_code=XXXXXXX&license_code=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&action=lookup&postcode=XXXXXX" HTTP CRITICAL: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request - string not found - 163 bytes in 0.013 second response time |time=0.013409s;;;0.000000 size=163B;;;0 the output of curling (curl -D - $URL ) the page gives this : Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:35:24 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET</a> X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 NextAction: NextType: Prompt: ResultType: Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 356 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <String Server="WEB11" Version="3.0" Date="22/01/2010 11:35:24" Duration="0.000s"> <Schema Items="2"> <Field Name="error_number" /> <Field Name="message" /> </Schema> <Data Items="1"> <Item error_number="6" message="License key was not recognised" /> </Data> Does anyone have ideas on how to get xml content check ? I looked at the nagiosexchange but did not find anything ( could be i was looking in the wrong place/context) . Thanks Assaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>