Here's an explanation by the author of hobbit...

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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

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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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