[hobbit] http timeout and content checking

[Gary Baluha]

Actually, it looks like it's not so much an issue with the max length for
the URL, as it is for *any* line in bb-hosts.  I started writing an
extension script to do the content checking, and even that is getting the
URL truncated.  The problem appears that everything past 464 characters from
the "#" in the bb-hosts file for any host is discarded.

As far as I can tell, there is no environment variable or setting that I can
change in the config file to change this.  Anyone else have any ideas?

On Dec 24, 2007 11:41 PM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > 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?
> >
>
> I apologize if this is a duplicate email, but it looks like from my end
> that something didn't post correctly...
>
> Anyway, I figured out why I'm getting this error. From the bb-network.logfile:
> 2007-12-24 23:14:28 content-check, but no content-data in 'cont;https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOSTNAME:9212/monitoring/MonitorControlServlet?monitorName=com.company.common.util.monitoring.URLMonitor&url=https://HOSTNAME:9212/LBListener/MessageReceiver&fullDisplay=true&isPost=true&TLSAction=hotelearningssummaryextract&TLSService=HotelEarnings&payload=
>
> <https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@hostname:9212/monitoring/MonitorControlServlet?monitorName=com.company.common.util.monitoring.URLMonitor&url=https://HOSTNAME:9212/LBListener/MessageReceiver&fullDisplay=true&isPost=true&TLSAction=hotelearningssummaryextract&TLSService=HotelEarnings&payload=><TLSBatchRQ><Parameters><Parameter'
>
>
> So it appears the full URL from the bb-hosts file is getting truncated.
> The limit looks to be around 370 (or at least more than 256), and I can't
> find anywhere to override this, so it appears to be hard-coded without
> looking through the actual code.
>
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