[hobbit] Ability to follow 302 redirects

[Charles Jones]

I actually just whipped one up in perl, which I will post once I get it 
in decent shape. If yours is a shell script that uses curl, that might 
be easier for folks to use, since mine requires a couple of perl modules 
(LWP::UserAgent, HTTP:Headers) to function. I initially tried a shell 
script with curl but I couldn't get curl to properly pass the 
authentication cookie to the redirected URL without doing 2 requests, 
but I didn't spend much time on it so I was probably doing something 
wrong :)

-Charles

Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a content check of a URL that 302's (because an auth
>> token is being passed in the URL). The problem I am having is Hobbit
>> reports "No output received from server".
>>
>> I searched the archives and noted that Hobbit does not (yet?) support
>> following 302 redirects, but shouldn't it get "something" back from the
>> server? If anything I could check the 302 code to verify that it is
>> redirecting to the authenticated URL instead of the error one.
>
> I'm doing this all the time, sucking web pages off our servers to
> validate correct operation.  I'm using curl, in custom bash scripts,
> to grab pages.  curl is very good at following 302 redirects, going
> through proxies with or without authentication, etc.
>
> I've been meaning to post a more-or-less generic script, but haven't
> made the time to get it together.  If you're interested, we could work
> something out offlist, then post a result either here or maybe on the
> Shire.