[Xymon] authentification check tests for cookies acceptance

[Ralph Mitchell]

There are (at least) 2 ways to handle this:

1) try "curl -o page.html http://server.domain.com",  then look at
page.html to see what it does, and work out where to go from there.

2) there's a plugin for Firefox called LiveHTTPheaders.  That records all
incoming and outgoing headers when you go to a web page.  That'll show what
gets sent back to the server after the initial page discovers that cookies
work.

It's possible that the initial page doesn't send anything back.  It may
just give any error if setting a cookie fails, rather than allowing you to
continue.  If so, you could probably use Xymon's http test.

Ralph Mitchell




On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Rolf Schrittenlocher <
schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:

>  Thank you Ralph, so that'll be the best way,
> kind regards
> Rolf
>
> It's very likely the web page has some JavaScript that is executed on
> loading, to set and read a cookie.  Xymom doesn't do JavaScript, but you
> can fake it in an ext script using curl.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>  On Nov 11, 2013 6:23 AM, "Rolf Schrittenlocher" <
> schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to test login on an authentification form with http. The requested
>> url checks for the acceptance of cookies. If cookies aren't accepted an
>> error message is returned even if authentification is successful. There is
>> no need to transfer cookies contents, only xymon has to to send the
>> information "yes, cookies accepted" with the http-test to the url. Is that
>> possible?
>>
>> kind regards
>> Rolf
>>
>> --
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>> Rolf Schrittenlocher
>>
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>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen
> Rolf Schrittenlocher
>
> Lokales Bibliothekssystem Frankfurt
> Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt
> Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908   Fax: (49) 69 798 28817
> LBS: lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de
> Persoenlich: schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de
>
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