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:
- Is there still demand for more robust website content checking features than what Hobbit supports out of the box?
- If so, what are the features missing in Hobbit that people are looking for?
- 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)?
- 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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