[Xymon] authentification check tests for cookies acceptance

13 Nov 2013

      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:

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 <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"
&lt;schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de
&lt;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

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Lokales Bibliothekssystem Frankfurt
Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt
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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
Persoenlich: schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de

[Xymon] authentification check tests for cookies acceptance

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