[hobbit] http timeout and content checking

[Gary Baluha]

I'm having a little problem converting some Sitescope web page checks into
Hobbit content checks.  In particular, I have several URLs of the form:
https://some.machine.name:9212/monitoring/MonitorControlServlet?monitorName=com.company.common.util.monitoring.blah.WLIProcessMonitor&fullDisplay=true&status=FROZEN&minCount=20
(names changed to protect the innocent)

The problem is, I can go to that URL manually, and it will show up
fine...after about 20 seconds or so.  The URL is slow to respond, because it
is running a back-end check, and that check simply takes a while to
complete.  The result is that Hobbit is coming back saying that the website
failed to respond after 10.x seconds, even though it would be fine if I
waited another 10 seconds or so.

I would like to be able to increase the timeout, but only for URLs similar
to above that are expected to take a while to respond.  I don't want to
increase this timeout across the board, since only a subset of all of the
URL monitoring I am doing take so long to respond.  Is there any way to do
this?

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Also on a related, though different note, are a few other tests that I can't
get the "content" column to show up.  These URLs are of the form:

https://username:password@some.machine.name:9212/monitoring/MonitorControlServlet?monitorName=com.company.common.util.monitoring.URLMonitor&url=https://some.machine.name:9212/LBListener/MessageReceiver&fullDisplay=true&isPost=true&ABCAction=AccountInfoRequest&ABCService=MemberManagement&payload=<request:AccountInfoRQ
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:request="
com.company.accountrequest"><AccountInfo
AccountCardNumber="4264292967999999" PortfolioID="177"
SecurityInfo="true"/></request:AccountInfoRQ>
(names changed to protect the innocent)

The http check is working fine, but it seems like hobbit is ignoring the
fact that I have it set up as a content check.  The bb-hosts line for this
test looks like:
1.2.3.4 test-name # DESC:"Test description" noconn nosslcert cont;<URL
above>;Success badhttp:1:2:3

I also just noticed that for these tests, bbtest is complaining "content-check,
but no content-data in <bb-hosts line above>".  However, if I manually go to
the URL in a browser, it does indeed return "content-data", and it returns
in a timely fashion (about 2 or 3 seconds).  Any ideas?
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