URLPlus interest - looking for feedback

Heh - that looks like exactly what I was doing for the last 8 years.  Do you
have any vacancies??  :)
URLPlus uses curl, so it should be able to do what your existing scripts do.
 This is the line in the showUrl subroutine:

    $ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S $pstr "$url" 2>&1);


I guess that's one place some changes could be made - adding options for
user authentication, proxy url and proxy authentication.

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Everett, Vernon <
user-9da1a1882f49@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 Hi Gary

I have seen URLPlus, but never delved into it.
Instead, I have been messing about with scripts using curl to try and get
web sites checked.
It gets a bit tricky here, because we have internal and external web sites
we need to check, some need to go through our proxy, some not.
And then we also need to check external "service" web sites that we require
to be up.
And it's all a nice mix of http and https.
Does URLPlus handle proxy servers OK?

Not sure what it needs, since I haven't used it yet, but I would encourage
you to continue working on it.

We have a major project deadline we are working towards right now, so time
is a premium, but in the near future, I will give URLPlus a go, and let you
know what I think.

Regards
     Vernon


*From:* Gary Baluha [mailto:user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, 30 July 2009 12:35 AM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* [hobbit] [Hobbit] URLPlus interest - looking for feedback

For those of you who have been around here for a while, you will have
noticed that I've been somewhat absent of late.  The short story is, I have
changed jobs and just don't get as many opportunities to check in as I used
to.  This also means I have left my reasons for working on URLPlus behind,
which is why development of it has stopped.

The purpose of this post is because I have gotten a few requests from time
to time about URLPlus, and I'm curious what the interest in me getting back
to developing it would be.  I've been out of the loop as far as new features
in the latest version of Hobbit being worked on, but from what I understand,
while there are more web page monitoring features built-in, there are still
some things where URLPlus could be useful.

So, I would be interested in the following feedback:
1) Is there still demand for more robust website content checking features
than what Hobbit supports out of the box?
2) If so, what are the features missing in Hobbit that people are looking
for?
3) For those who have chosen to use URLPlus, what are the reasons for that,
versus using some other Hobbit plugin (or for that matter, some other
monitoring tool)?
4) Finally, for those that are using URLPlus, what additional features
would you like to see it be capable of doing?


-Gary

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