url content checking / monitoring

[alex black]

hey all,

this continues an off-list discussion on the matter - first I am very 
happy (since monit already does nearly everything I need) that you guys 
are interested in doing this:

This syntax proposed by martin:

 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} "^my 
regular*expression$"]
      [with checksum 8f7f419955cefa0b33a2ba316cba3659]
      then alert

Assumptions:

	-this could be made to work without an IP address specification (so as 
to check that DNS is functioning as well :) (very minor and ignorable)
	-this would work with apache virtualhosts which rely on the hostname 
in the request to determine what content to serve (client would be curl 
or similar?)
	-checksum would be of the return payload from the HTTP transaction (an 
MD5sum of a curl download? - this would be AWESOME - documentation 
would need to clearly state the process used to generate the checksum 
(I've had problems with varying md5 implementations before :P)

If so, this is _EXACTLY_ what I need and would be _fantastic_ to have 
on my machine. I'd happily donate and if you guys need help with cuter 
graphics I'm up for it :)

best,

_a



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