There are (at least) 2 ways to handle this:
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.
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> 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> 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
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