[Xymon] netrc not working

[Jeremy]

I think that permissions on the .netrc file are important.  Needs to be 
600 and owned by the user running Xymon.

HTH

------ Original Message ------
From: "Ralph M" <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
To: "Kris Springer" <kspringer at innovateteam.com>
Cc: "Xymon MailingList" <xymon at xymon.com>
Sent: 22/05/2020 06:27:29
Subject: Re: [Xymon] netrc not working

>You may need to write a script to handle the check, especially if it 
>does anything tricky with Javascript or JSON.
>
>Start with the login page:
>
>     curl -s -S -L -b cookies -c cookies -o login_page.html -v 
>http://thing.mydomain.com
>
>The -v option gets you the headers that go back and forth, in case 
>that's useful.  Read through the login_page.html and see what's in the 
>login form, and if it's just a simple POST.  Look for hidden fields to 
>send back,
>
>     curl -s -S -L -b cookies -c cookies -o page.html -d userid=xxxx -d 
>passwd=xxxx -v http://thing.mydomain.com
>
>that's assuming the variable names in the INPUT fields are "userid" and 
>"passwd".  Then see what page.html contains.  Lather, rinse, repeat, 
>until you get to the page you're interested in.
>
>If it *does* do anything tricky with Javascript, JSON, or anything 
>else, you may never be able to do it in shell scripts.  You might be 
>able to get something done in python or another language.
>
>Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>
>On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:28 PM Kris Springer 
><kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:
>>Hi all.  I'm trying to get xymon to log into a device we have and 
>>check
>>for a keyword on a certain page.  I know how to check a site for 
>>keyword
>>using 'cont', but the device requires a login and I can't seem to get 
>>it
>>to work.  It's just an http device, but the
>>http://username:password@1.2.3.4.com doesn't work, and neither does 
>>the
>>'netrc' file that I found in an old blog post.  Anyone know how to get
>>this to work?
>>
>>--
>>Kris Springer
>>
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