[Xymon] How capable is the `expect` & `send` in protocols.conf?

[Grant Taylor]

On 11/6/23 1:55 PM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
> Grant,

Hi J.C.

> Unfortunately, xymonnet does not implement the full expect framework.

Thank you for confirming.

I suspected that was going to be the case.

> Based on a re-examination of xymonnet.c and contest.c, I believe we're 
> just sending the 'send' buffer once, and then collecting whatever is 
> available in response. The actual comparison (to the "expect" line) 
> looks to be done later on, when we're deciding colors and creating 
> the status message results.

That makes sense.

It would be nice if there was a "waitfor" or something like that to not 
send immediately.

But I understand and support going for simplicity here.

> IIRC, the lack of delay in waiting for results has caused problems 
> in some tests before... possibly specifically with SMTP, actually.

Ya.  The type of testing that I'm doing is common anti-spam technique.

I tweaked the anti-spam filter to allow Xymon to send commands immediately.

> (HTTP requests aren't handled the same way, and will always return 
> the full payload back if configured to retrieve the results.)

ACK



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