On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Bob Elzer 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!* > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of > 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 > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.ABLEconf.com/ > # Director of Engineering, FonWallet Transaction Solutions, Inc. > # Intelligence without compassion is a waste. -- der.hans > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Skype: (623)239-3392 AT&T: (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com