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Re: [hobbit] Using post to test user login

I've been doing exactly that for years, with Big Brother scripts.  As such,
it's all in Bourne shell, using curl to fetch web pages, grepping for the
interesting bits, then using curl again to post the pages back.  Some of the
scripts grind right through the Siteminder login process, which bounces you
from the original server to the authenticating server, then back again.
Curl handles the redirects just fine.  It also deals with SSL on secure web
servers.

If you're interested, I can see about stripping out the company specific
stuff from one of them, so you can see how it works.  There should be no
problem integrating with Hobbit.

OK, so it's not Python or Perl, but it was what I had to work with 6 years
ago when I started.  I keep telling myself that when the rush dies down I'll
see about converting to Python...

Ralph Mitchell


On 6/21/06, Maschino, Shawn (GE Indust, Plastics) <Shawn.Maschino (at) ge.com>
wrote:


             Hi all – I ran into a challenge and was wondering if anyone
else had seen it and found a workaround.  I'd like to use the "post"
function of the HTTP test to verify a web page that does user authentication
for an application.  The way the login works is:



-          User enters login details on a web form

-          The user is sent to a "middle" page while authentication is
done

-          If authentication is successful they are redirected into the
web application, otherwise they redirect to an error page



When using the post check I can only get to that middle page, which
doesn't tell me if authentication was correct or not.  The reason for the
middle page is that this web site is using SSO authentication against an
external LDAP system.  We'd need to be able to get to the page that the
redirect pushes to.  Does anyone know if there is a way around this?  My
first impressions would be no, but I thought it wouldn't hurt (too much!) to ask.




Thanks!



Shawn