On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:15:25PM +0200, Charles Goyard wrote:
Since bbgen 3.x, the libcurl has been dropped for bbtest-net, and the ability to follow Redirects for http disappeared. Of course, I need it for some major websites. I have several options : [snip] (1) Henrik, have you got any plans of making the http redirect back to work ? (please please please :)).
I do, but it won't happen in the near future. So you may want to try out the custom script mechanism until I get around to it.
My hope is that this will be a rather easy thing to do, once I get around to rewriting the network tester so that it can engage in a real dialogue. Currently the network tester connects, sends something, and grabs the response. Period. It won't look at the response and go "hey, I need to send another request" and then do that. This is also causing problems for e.g. SMTP checks, because the current default Hobbit setup is actually not SMTP protocol compliant - and a few SMTP servers out there actually complain about it, causing Hobbit to think they are out of order, when in fact they are running fine.
So - the plan is to put some more advanced communications mechanism into the network tester, and with that in place it should be easier to provide the redirect-support you need.
Regards, Henrik