problems with socksified bbtest-net and https over proxy

[Rene Burkhardt <rene.burkhardt (at) ch.ibm.com>]

Hi,
I have setup hobbit in an environment with many DMZ's separated by
firewalls.

I can monitor many services by starting bbtest-net via ssh on remote hosts
and forwarding
the hobbit port with this same ssh connection to get the results returned.

But some services can only be reached over proxies and/or socks.
This poses some problems:
1. bbtest-net does not support https over a proxy. I have seen  that this
requirement is on the
   TOTO list. Is someone working on this, and will this feature be
implemented in the future?
   As a workaround I have developed a script using curl, but this does not
scale well for large
   number of URL's, and does not deliver the certificate information.
2. I have also tried to run bbtest-net socksified to test servers via
socks. With version 4.2.0 this
   works somehow but returns per monitor an error 'select failed - EINTR'
and if many monitors
   are long-running, the bbtest-net program can hang. With version 4.2.3
bbtest-net core-dumps,
   except if it is called with the parameters '--dns=ip --noping
--no-ares', and in this it case delivers
   the same error message.



Freundliche Grüsse / Kind regards

René Burkhardt


                                                                       
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