xymonnet not working for basic authentication with # in password

Thanks Phil! That is my approach now. Just wanted to confirm the issue and hoped other people don’t need  to go through the same effort of testing.


On 11/6/17, 4:58 PM, "Phil Crooker" <user-e8e31cd73303@xymon.invalid> wrote:

You could run this in a custom ext script, just use the same TEST name, and of course remove it from hosts.cfg. You'll probably need to add escapes/quotes or whatever works (e.g. you need to put \ in front of all the & chars). Here is one of the tests I use:

/usr/bin/curl --max-time 30 -sS --write-out "\nHTTP_return_code:%{http_code} Time:%{time_total}" > $XYMONHOME/tmp/OUTPUT.$$.$MACHINEDOTS 2>&1 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__whatever.com_blahblah&d=DwIFAw&c=Zok6nrOF6Fe0JtVEqKh3FEeUbToa1PtNBZf6G01cvEQ&r=_rRsvDpSvkhydGEmSgSLQ5J0DhQTISZJFuX6D4Oq8-A&m=24udmzCdcvbr1OdUbT5A93xBR3NRkcD-Jm9ogrLo5T0&s=d_2stxh6M8pJNrcrH9mlRS0T3-KWYl32gDFnNHos2ig&e=

Try it out manually w/o all the xymon stuff to make sure the URL is read properly. Note the timeout - you'll probably need this for when the connection half works. I write the output to a file so the script can include it in the status message.

cheers.
From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Max Xu <user-0e2fe6810b65@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2017 8:40 AM
To: John Thurston; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonnet not working for basic authentication with # in password

Thanks John, I did try them all with same result.


On 11/3/17, 3:03 PM, "Xymon on behalf of John Thurston" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com on behalf of user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 11/3/2017 1:19 PM, Max Xu wrote:

I am have something
like httpstatus;https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__admin-5Fname-3ApasswdXY-23Z-40abc.com_abc-3B200&d=DwIGaQ&c=Zok6nrOF6Fe0JtVEqKh3FEeUbToa1PtNBZf6G01cvEQ&r=_rRsvDpSvkhydGEmSgSLQ5J0DhQTISZJFuX6D4Oq8-A&m=dm7hBNws2amD5BULT5yiqOnwxg_cMThGCgONbsIrpZA&s=4CL4rAHy0-BsMW7hps3Dh456ycR5riTr5M7lBIIcWlo&e=  in hosts.cfg.

It would not surprise me that the # character breaks the parser. The
syntax of this line has evolved over the decades, while remaining
backwardly compatible. It is a truly spectacular mashup of semicolons,
spaces, quotes, and equal signs.

Have you tried wrapping the whole httpstatus portion in double-quotes?
  "httpsstatus;https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__foo-3Ab-23r-40baz.com-3B200&d=DwIGaQ&c=Zok6nrOF6Fe0JtVEqKh3FEeUbToa1PtNBZf6G01cvEQ&r=_rRsvDpSvkhydGEmSgSLQ5J0DhQTISZJFuX6D4Oq8-A&m=dm7hBNws2amD5BULT5yiqOnwxg_cMThGCgONbsIrpZA&s=2Mnx0bcUCUbyCPPK-IbfGYmy_egZqVsaH8panqcrEUI&e=";

Have you tried replacing the # with %23 ? I don't really expect it to
work, but it's worth a try.

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