On 9/14/06, Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com> wrote:

Hi

I'm trying to monitor a web application (Cacti) which needs a login/password. Here is the form :

<form name="login" method="post" action="index.php"> <input type="text" name="login_username" size="40" style="width: 295px;"> <input type="password" name="login_password" size="40" style="width: 295px;"> <input type="submit" value="Login"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="login"> </form>

I've tried this in bb-hosts :

post;http://10.20.30.40/cacti/;login_username=foo&login_password=bar;Logged

The 'content' test is red, and running in debug mode gives no error but :

2006-09-14 11:16:20 Calc content color host phoenix : 2006-09-14 11:16:20 Content check on http://10.20.30.40/cacti/ is red 2006-09-14 11:16:20 Adding to combo msg: status phoenix.content red Thu Sep 14 11:16:20 2006: Content match failed

The 'http' test is green.

I've tested with Hobbit 4.1.2p2 and 4.2.0 (patched).

Could it be related to cookies ?

Yep, could be cookies. There's a Firefox extension called LiveHTTPHeaders that is excellent for tracking down this kind of thing. It grabs all the headers, both sent and received, so that you can see exactly what's going on. If the server is sending you cookies, you'll see them in the received headers.

I've done this a lot with Big Brother scripts to monitor web pages..:) Ralph Mitchell