[hobbit] Using POST to test web pages

[Ralph Mitchell]

On 9/14/06, Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to monitor a web application (Cacti) which needs a
> login/password.
> Here is the form :
>
> <form name="login" method="post" action="index.php">
> <input type="text" name="login_username" size="40" style="width: 295px;">
> <input type="password" name="login_password" size="40" style="width:
> 295px;">
> <input type="submit" value="Login">
> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="login">
> </form>
>
>
> I've tried this in bb-hosts :
>
> post;http://10.20.30.40/cacti/;login_username=foo&login_password=bar;Logged
>
> The 'content' test is red, and running in debug mode gives no error but :
>
> 2006-09-14 11:16:20 Calc content color host phoenix : 2006-09-14
> 11:16:20 Content check on http://10.20.30.40/cacti/ is red
> 2006-09-14 11:16:20 Adding to combo msg: status phoenix.content red Thu
> Sep 14 11:16:20 2006: Content match failed
>
>
> The 'http' test is green.
>
> I've tested with Hobbit 4.1.2p2 and 4.2.0 (patched).
>
> Could it be related to cookies ?

Yep, could be cookies.  There's a Firefox extension called
LiveHTTPHeaders that is excellent for tracking down this kind of
thing.  It grabs all the headers, both sent and received, so that you
can see exactly what's going on.  If the server is sending you
cookies, you'll see them in the received headers.

I've done this a lot with Big Brother scripts to monitor web pages..:)
Ralph Mitchell