On 22/01/09 19:25, Venugopal S wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I am even now vague about how to proceed.
> 
> Let me tell you the need :
> 
> I have to open http://ww12.1800flowers.com/signin.do and enter my
> email(svenugop...@gmail.com) and password("podhum") in order to login.

Why did you give us a valid user/password combination? :-)


> 
> When I login using the above valid credentials it would take me to the
> next page or otherwise throw an error.
> 
> How do I compose the command line for check_http ?
> 
> Though this looks like a lot of hand holding, I have no other go.
> 
> Can you please help ?
> 
> Venu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:15 PM
> To: Nagios Users Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios check_http for web
> basedauthentication
> 
> 
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 5:50 AM, Venugopal S wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can I do a check on a particular website by supplying the username 
> > and password to nagios check_http commandline ?
> >
> > To be clear :
> >
> > Assume that I want to check whether login action happens properly on 
> > my website which is www.venu.com. And the login page name is
> www.venu.com/signup.do
> >  . This form would take username and password and send a POST 
> > request to www.venu.com/autorize.do. How will i check this in nagios ?
> >
> > If it had been GET method, I would have done that. But in my case, 
> > it is POST method
> 
> Since you're using forms based authentication, use the -P parameter to 
> check_http.
> 
> $ ./check_http --help
> 
> [chop]
> 
>   -P, --post=STRING
>      URL encoded http POST data
> 
> 
> check_http -I <ipaddress of serve> -H www.venu.com -u /autorize.do -P 
> "usernamefield=username&passwordfield=password"
> 
> If you need something more complex than that you might want to search 
> for past posts about use of perl's WWW::Mechanize or 
> Nagios::WebTransact to help create a custom plugin.
> 
> Note for future readers, if the site uses standard htaccess 
> authentication then '-a username:password' if the format.
> 
> --
> Marc
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