[Xymon] authentification check tests for cookies acceptance

[Rolf Schrittenlocher]

Hi Ralph,

I succeeded partly with curl (and finally with Xymon's build in http 
test). Partly because the login process I wanted to test turned out to 
be a serie of redirects where different data is created dynamically and 
transferred in hidden forms and tags. That was the real problem, not the 
cookie. I content myself now with checking the first part of this 
process, better than nothing. Thank you for helping,

kind regards
Rolf

> 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 <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Mit freundlichen Gruessen
>>         Rolf Schrittenlocher
>>
>>         Lokales Bibliothekssystem Frankfurt
>>         Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt
>>         Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908   Fax: (49) 69 798 28817
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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  <mailto:lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de>
>     Persoenlich:schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de  <mailto:schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de>  
>
>


-- 
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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