[hobbit] Real network service tests

Rob MacGregor rob.macgregor at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 17:11:41 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 15:58, Brian Daly <brian.daly at criticalpath.net> wrote:
> The Man page for hobbit states that :
>
> When checking websites, it is possible to not only check that the webserver
> is responding, but also that the response looks correct by matching the
> response against a pre-defined pattern or a checksum
>
> Can anybody tell me how to configure this? I want to run a http test on a
> webserver. If the webserver does not return the response I am expecting then
> alert me that something has changed on the server.

Under "HTTP tests" in the version of the man page I have it lists the
"cont=" test for doing content checks.

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