[hobbit] Question regarding logins and content checks

[Ralph Mitchell]

I think 4.2 has post, but I don't know when it first appeared.  I never used
it because the servers I was hitting often had weird redirects that were
best handled by a script.
Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> When was this post added to bb-hosts?  I wasn't aware you could do this.
> This is good news for many people here!
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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
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>>  I could, but I love the simpleness of this in my bb-hosts, rather than
>> having to write external scripts
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>> post;https://site.blah.com
>> ;switch=Log+In&user=user&password=password;logged
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>> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:20 PM
>> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Question regarding logins and content checks
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>> Typically the way a log out is started is by clicking a link.  Could you
>> not just wget or curl the URL?
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
>> improbable, must be the truth."
>> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>>
>>  On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
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>> I have successfully configured the "post" http monitor to login to a
>> website using a form.  However, I don't think this monitor has the ability
>> to "log out" like Sitescope for example and thus the end application server
>> ends up with a lot of idle logins and eventually exhausts the connection
>> limit.  Is there any process to have hobbit do an additional check/post on
>> the "log off" button after the initial login and content check (if
>> successful)?
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>> Thanks,
>> Tom
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