[Xymon] HTTP Post tests

[Galen Johnson]

Thanks, Ralph.  It's a wildcard cert.  I'd forgotten that I had seen
that format.  I'm going to see if that makes a difference.

=G=

On 12/11/2013 11:47 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> What does the cert have for the CN in the Subject?  If it doesn't
> match the hostname, that's probably why you get the error.  I don't
> know if Xymon can be told to ignore those, but the hosts.cfg man page
> does have a suggestion that might work.  In the section "Testing sites
> by IP address":
>
>         "Instead the IP-address to connect to can be overridden by
> specifying it as:
>
>             http://www.sample.com=1.2.3.4/index.html
> <http://1.2.3.4/index.html>
>
>             The "=1.2.3.4" will cause xymonnet to run the test against
> the IP-address "1.2.3.4", 
>             while still trying to access the virtual website with the
> name "www.sample.com <http://www.sample.com>"."
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com
> <mailto:solitaryr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Ok...now I have a new question...I'm using the IP address in my
>     URL and if I browse to the url it complains about the cert not
>     matching the url.  In curl, you can tell it to ignore cert
>     errors.  Is it possible to have Xymon do this?  I could've missed
>     it in the man page.
>
>
>     On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com
>     <mailto:solitaryr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I know.  Was hoping it could be done natively.
>
>         On Dec 9, 2013 9:12 PM, "Ralph Mitchell"
>         <ralphmitchell at gmail.com <mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             It can be done in an external script with curl, using the
>             --head option to get just the headers.  
>
>             Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>
>             On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Jeremy Laidman
>             <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
>             <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>> wrote:
>
>                 On 10 December 2013 07:50, Galen Johnson
>                 <Galen.Johnson at sas.com <mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com>>
>                 wrote:
>
>                     However,
>                     the information I'm trying to trigger on is
>                     actually in the headers (as
>                     "Exception") and not the body.  Any way to get
>                     Xymon to parse headers as
>                     well?
>
>
>                 No, Xymon only looks the header "Content-type" for the
>                 "type" test.  All other web tests are against the
>                 body.  This would be a neat feature.
>
>                 J
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