[hobbit] Highlights of the 4.3.0 version

[Charles Jones]

All the new features sound great. It also sounds like nearly everyone 
has additional features they would like to see...do you use any sort of 
tool for tracking feature requests?

P.S. I might as well throw in my own feature request ;-)
* Content check should correctly follow 302 (redirects).  I currently 
have to use a custom-made script that uses curl in order to do content 
checks.  In fact, I will include it in case anyone wants to use it:

#!/bin/bash
# contchk.sh written by Charles Jones (blazer0x at gmail.com) 6/6/2007
# This script is designed to perform a content check on a URL and report the
# status to a Hobbit server.
#
# This script was created because Hobbits built-in content check 
functionality
# does not follow 302 redirects.
#
# The script parses out a "contchk" tag in the bb-hosts file. The proper
# syntax is: contchk;URL;REFERRER;CHECKSTRING
#
# Note that CHECKSTRING cannot contain spaces so you must use regular
# expression metacharacters, so use something like string.with.spaces
BBHTAG=contchk     # Name of the tag in bb-hosts
COLUMN=cont        # Column display name in Hobbit
CURL=/usr/bin/curl # Location of curl binary
CURLOPTS="--connect-timeout 30 -m 30 -s -L -b cookiejar" # Curl options
# Note: using grep because bbhostgrep fails on long lines
grep $BBHTAG $BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts | while read L
   do
      set $L    # To get one line of output from bbhostgrep
      HOSTIP="$1"
      MACHINEDOTS="$2"
      MACHINE=`echo $2 | $SED -e's/\./,/g'`
      CHECKURL=`echo $4 | awk -F";" '{print $2}'`    # Parse out the 
check URL
      REFERRER=`echo $4 | awk -F";" '{print $3}'`    # Parse out the 
referrer string
      if [ "" != "$REFERRER" ];
         then
           REFERRER="-e $REFERRER"
      fi
      CHECKSTRING=`echo $4 | awk -F";" '{print $4}'` # Parse out the 
check string
      $CURL $CURLOPTS $REFERRER $CHECKURL |grep -q "$CHECKSTRING"
      status=$? # Save greps return status
      if [ 0 -eq $status ]; then # grep returns 0 if it found something
        COLOR=green
        MSG="String <b>\"$CHECKSTRING\"</b> was found in <a 
href=$CHECKURL>$CHECKURL</a>"
        $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` Content Check OK
        ${MSG}
        "
      else # grep didn't find anything
        COLOR=red
        MSG="String <b>\"$CHECKSTRING\"</b> was NOT FOUND in <a 
href=$CHECKURL>$CHECKURL</a>"
        $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` Content Check 
FAILED
        ${MSG}
        "
      fi
   done
exit 0