Re: https/http response tools

["C. Bensend" <benny_(_at_)_bennyvision_(_dot_)_com>]

> I am looking for a tool in C or Perl that makes https/http connections and
> parses the response. Anyone know of such
> a pre-packaged tool or is this a custom thing?
>
> I find many of the monitoring tools are way to involved for a simple
> purpose.
> I wrote a shell script that
> pings servers, and it works great for the last year or so. I would now
> like to
> do some application level
> checking based on https/http response codes.

You could probably build the Nagios plugins, and use check_http to
do what you like.  It's a simple build, and you don't have to run
Nagios to just use the plugin.

Benny


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