Re: Check a string in a web page of more than 256 bytes

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 4. jul. 2006, at 13.27, David Llanos wrote:

>         is there a possibility to check (with the SEND/EXPECT  
> schema) if a determined string is inside a web page, although it is  
> not in the first 256 Bytes of the page???

No, send/expect is limited to testing the first 256 bytes. However  
you can use the url test to check for up to 1 MB of content in a web  
page. From the manual:
Testing the content returned by the server is optional. If used, you  
can test if the content match or does not match a regular expression.  
Here's an example on how the URL statement can be used in a check  
service:

 check host FOO with address www.foo.bar
      if failed url
         http://user:address@hidden:8080/?querystring
         and content == 'action="j_security_check"'
      then ...
Monit will look at the content-length header returned by the server  
and download this amount before testing the content. That is, if the  
content-length is more than 1Mb or this header is not set by the  
server monit will default to download up to 1 Mb and not more.

Only the http(s) protocol is supported in an URL statement. If the  
protocol is https monit will use SSL when connecting to the server.