On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:00:46PM -0500, Robert Bethke wrote:

I'm currently working on a project that I need to get hobbit to test authentication on a number of servers namely an IMAP and SMTP server, along with a few others. I was guessing having little background in network diagnostic that I could modify the sent responses within bb-services to login to the server using a test account and then check for the proper response back. The problem I've run into is that I'm not clear on the proper commands or syntax to do this and when I have modified the tests it seems that I'll get a green event regardless to what I put within expect. Anyway if anyone could point me in the right direction (Examples are great too) it would be greatly appreciated.

The way that the Hobbit network tester works isn't really designed to do what you want. Performing a full login to an IMAP server requires several exchanges between the server and the client (in this case, the Hobbit tester). The Hobbit tester doesn't do that; it connects, kicks off the "send" string, waits for single response, then disconnects. The response is then matched against the "expect" string.

Your best bet is probably to hunt down a tool that knows how to talk to these servers, then run this through a custom extension script. Or write your own, e.g. using the original "expect" tool.

Regards, Henrik