hobbit/bb 403 is green?

[Lisa Kachold]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's an explanation by the author of hobbit...
>
> -------
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:25:53AM -0500, Larry Barber wrote:
> > Henrik, I currently have an http test that is getting a "403 Forbidden"
> > response. Hobbit is not marking this as an error. Would it be possible to
> > have Hobbit treat a "Forbidden" response as an error and alert on it?
>
> Since Frederic has already been quoting my source-code, I guess it's
> evident that I have been in doubt about this particular error code.
>
> The reason it does not cause a yellow or red status is that "Forbidden"
> is a common result when testing websites that require authentication.
> Your Hobbit server may not have the required authentication, and in
> that case a red status because of a 403 error would be misleading.
>
> One could also argue that if the server is so much alive as to respond
> with a "Forbidden" status, then there is a fair chance that it is
> actually running OK.
>
> So my suggestion is that if you must have a red status if you get a 403
> status back, then implement a content-check and look for something in
> the response that must be present.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
> -------
>
>
Correct, it's broken by design.  But can easily be "fixed" to appear yellow
or red with the changes to source and recompile (as suggested above)
trivially.

*This is  Open Source after all!*

>
>
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> der.hans
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 9:58 AM
> To: quatsch
> Subject: hobbit/bb 403 is green?
>
> moin moin,
>
> added monitoring for a borken web server to hobbit last night and a 403
> forbidden is giving a green status. Seems foolish that a hard error would
> be
> marked as OK.
>
> How do I get hobbit to correctly mark a 403 as being down?
>
> I don't see anything about this in the bb-hosts man page :(.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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