[hobbit] Re: urlplus.pl http/https monitoring extension script

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Feb 7, 2008 8:44 AM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool, thanks!  I only just looked over the diff file, but so far it looks
> pretty good.  You did a good job at keeping the same formatting I used too,
> which is nice :-)  Only one thing was missed: you didn't add your initials
> and a comment to the revision history section ;-)

Oooops...  :)

> Regarding the proxy, I think it would be a good idea to have the proxy url
> in the config file.  But I think in general, the config file could use a
> little overhauling, as some of the monitors I set up have long urls and
> especially with the "post" type, long post content as well.  It makes the
> single-line format a bit unwieldy to edit.  I'll have to come up with
> something when I get a chance.

I can think of at least two other things I'd like to see in the config file:

1) COLUMN - There could be multiple different checks on a given
server.  For example:  we have a bunch of servers running Tomcat on
ports 8001 & 9001.  One port set is always offline (and
disabled-until-OK in Hobbit)  The client occasionally asks to switch
clusters, usually at inconvenient (for me) times, so I check both port
sets all the time.  A single test hitting both ports would always show
red...

2) per-host authentication - to handle the occasions where a browser
would pop up an authentication box because the server responds with
"401 Unauthorized" & "WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="xxxx" headers.
That would be "curl -u userid:passwd".

I think you're going to end up with multi-line entries per host...

Ralph Mitchell