[hobbit] content tests (Yet another content check question)

[Charles Jones]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
>   
>> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:06:39PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>>> And stop that madness about putting the content check into the http 
>>>>> column.
>>>>>
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>> LOL...Yes sir :-)  The only other question I have is, how do I get 2 
>>>> content checks to show? When I specify more than one, it only shows the 
>>>> result of the first one (although both are shown in the info column so I 
>>>> assume alerts would still work for each).
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Provided you don't force them into the same column, they should show up
>>> a "content1" and "content2" status columns. Or whatever you name them.
>>>  
>>>       
>> Aww...but when you define multiple http checks for a single host, it 
>> puts all of those into the same column, it would be nice to have the 
>> content checks do the same. I guess another option is I could create a 
>> "web" sub page and list the individual websites with dedicated cont columns.
>>     
>
> The problem is that the content check includes the actual webpage data.
> Trying to stuff one webpage inside another can result in a pretty
> awful looking status page. Doing that with two or more webpages is
> just too bizarre to actually work.
>
> Yes, I know you can probably get it right by using HTML <DIV> or
> <OBJECT> tags to embed one page inside another. Unfortunately, not
> all browser can handle those.
>   
If you are doing a content check, you already know what you are looking 
for, so why include the contents of the page at all? Maybe we could only 
show the contents of the page if the content check fails, which would 
likely just show a  small footprint database or php error.

Just thinking out loud.  Thanks for answering my questions today.  
Please also answer the one I sent yesterday about how to send you a 
donation for all your hard work :)

-Charles
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