Re: URL content checking [Vote]

[Rory Toma]

+1 for me.

<quote who="Jan-Henrik Haukeland">
> This is a nice feature and I propose that we try to implement this in
> monit.  We need to vote, if we should add this feature in monit. So
> please cast your votes!
>
> Here is mine +1
>
> The proposal is as follows:
> ------------------------------------
> Add content monitoring to monit  so the following requirements are meet:
>
> Check if a URL is up (responding)
> Check if a URL does or does not contain a string
>
> The only protocol supported for URL testing is HTTP(S). We suggest the
> following syntax in monit's control file for this new functionality:
>
> On Dec 2, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Martin Pala wrote:
>
>>  check host myhost with address 192.168.1.1
>>     if failed url http://user:address@hidden:8080/index.php
>>       [and content {contains|notcontains|equals|notequal}
>> "^myregular*expression$"]
>>       [with checksum 8f7f419955cefa0b33a2ba316cba3659]
>>       then alert
>
> In addition I would like to suggest a short-form (not quite sure about
> the syntax, only that a short-form would be nice):
>
>       check URL myURLCollection
>               if failed urls [
>                       http://user:address@hidden/foobar?querystring
>                       http://user:address@hidden/foobar
>                       http://blabla3.com/foobar?querystring
>                       http://labla4.com/foobar?querystring
>                       http://user:address@hidden/foobar
>                       ....] # Space or newline separate url-entries
>               then <action>
>
> The rationale for this varian is that if one should want to monitor
> several hundreds of URLs it is less to write and you can group URLs
> into collections. The URL-test should be conducted as follows,
>       - Test all URLs in the list in one poll-session
>       - If one or more URL failed, only send one and only one alert report
> listing those URLs that failed.
>
> --
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland
>
>
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