URLPlus interest - looking for feedback

URLPlus as it is now does support proxy servers.  I think the version on The
Shire (I still call it by that; I keep forgetting the new name) is an older
version prior to the proxy support I added.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>wrote:

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