[hobbit] http timeout and content checking

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Jan 3 12:11:46 CET 2008


On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:23:42PM -0500, Gary Baluha wrote:
> 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.

It shouldn't do that, and I cannot trigger this with a simple test.
Could you send me (off-list) the bb-hosts file you're using ?

Another simple check you can do: In the Hobbit source directory 
hobbit-4.2.0/lib there is a "loadhosts" binary - this is a debugging
tool. You can run it with

   cd hobbit-4.2.0
   ./lib/loadhats /etc/hobbit/bb-hosts HOSTNAME

This should dump the tags found for the host HOSTNAME in bb-hosts.
It would be interesting to see if the entries are also truncated there.

Do the URL's show up correctly on the "info" column page ?


Regards,
Henrik




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