Re: Plans for the next release

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Rory Toma <address@hidden> writes:

> I use the http interface as a command channel, and will have apps
> write w/o a browser directly (over the VPN) to start/stop stuff. I
> do not want stuff visible from a browser.
> 
> Perhaps the answer to this question (and the multiple interface ?)
> is to add a non-webserver interface that just implements remote
> commands?

And there I thought I was pretty clever to use HTTP for this :) That
way you can have apps talking directly to the monit server and even
use a browser.

For example here is an app for starting apache:

  perl -MIO::Socket -e '
   $s= IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => localhost, PeerPort => 2812) 
   or die "monit http is down\n";
   print($s "GET /apache?action=start HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"); 
   printf("%s\n", <$s>=~/200/?"Apache started":"Error staring apache");'


Actually using HTTP for remote control _is_ clever if I have to say it
myself :)

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland