On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 03:47:20AM +0200, Gilles Lamiral wrote: > David, > > > Though the http monitor script validate the web server is responding, it > > can't validate the service hosted on this webserver is correctly running .. > > So what is a webserver correctly running ?
At my work there's a group (of mostly software engineers) that is trying to figure out how to tell if a web site is "working" by adding junk to the HTML. It is then up to a monitor to parse the HTML and look for certain tags or send certain params with every request to get the added junk (or maybe even get a cookie first that tells the web server to send debug junk on each request), etc, etc. Please don't start up on this here. 1% of the work will catch 99% of the actual web site errors - using http.monitor with Mon. If you code custom server and client code, you'll put in a huge amount of effort for a very small gain. Perhaps your work wants this (banking app *has* to work right, for example) and is paying you to do this, but for most people it's overkill. Just my $0.02. -- "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." - Rob Pike, commenting on the X Window System.
