Re: [hobbit] [Hobbit] URLPlus interest - looking for feedback

[Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

Heh - that looks like exactly what I was doing for the last 8 years.  Do you
have any vacancies??  :)
URLPlus uses curl, so it should be able to do what your existing scripts do.
 This is the line in the showUrl subroutine:

    $ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S $pstr "$url" 2>&1);


I guess that's one place some changes could be made - adding options for
user authentication, proxy url and proxy authentication.

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Everett, Vernon <
Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi Gary
>
> I have seen URLPlus, but never delved into it.
> Instead, I have been messing about with scripts using curl to try and get
> web sites checked.
> It gets a bit tricky here, because we have internal and external web sites
> we need to check, some need to go through our proxy, some not.
> And then we also need to check external "service" web sites that we require
> to be up.
> And it's all a nice mix of http and https.
> Does URLPlus handle proxy servers OK?
>
> Not sure what it needs, since I haven't used it yet, but I would encourage
> you to continue working on it.
>
> We have a major project deadline we are working towards right now, so time
> is a premium, but in the near future, I will give URLPlus a go, and let you
> know what I think.
>
> Regards
>      Vernon
>
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Gary Baluha [mailto:gumby3203 (at) gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 30 July 2009 12:35 AM
> *To:* hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] [Hobbit] URLPlus interest - looking for feedback
>
> For those of you who have been around here for a while, you will have
> noticed that I've been somewhat absent of late.  The short story is, I have
> changed jobs and just don't get as many opportunities to check in as I used
> to.  This also means I have left my reasons for working on URLPlus behind,
> which is why development of it has stopped.
>
> The purpose of this post is because I have gotten a few requests from time
> to time about URLPlus, and I'm curious what the interest in me getting back
> to developing it would be.  I've been out of the loop as far as new features
> in the latest version of Hobbit being worked on, but from what I understand,
> while there are more web page monitoring features built-in, there are still
> some things where URLPlus could be useful.
>
> So, I would be interested in the following feedback:
> 1) Is there still demand for more robust website content checking features
> than what Hobbit supports out of the box?
> 2) If so, what are the features missing in Hobbit that people are looking
> for?
> 3) For those who have chosen to use URLPlus, what are the reasons for that,
> versus using some other Hobbit plugin (or for that matter, some other
> monitoring tool)?
> 4) Finally, for those that are using URLPlus, what additional features
> would you like to see it be capable of doing?
>
>
> -Gary
>
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