Re: {bb} http content verification

[Tin Le <tin@netimages.com>]

> > Hiya all :)
> > First I wanted to say "Thank you, Sean" for the great functionality that bb
> > provides :)))

Likewise.  I've been using BB since v1.00 and have found it extremely
useful.  Thanks!
 
> > I implemented it successfully ..thanks again :)
> 
> You may now be called "brother"!

Hi brothers!
 
> > I'm curious if we can do content verification with it. Most of our sites are
> > dynamically built from databases and I'd like to know if the right content
> > is showing. Any ideas ? I guessed it would be some modification of
> > bb-network.sh ...but didn't have much time to dig deeper. Maybe you guys
> > have experience with this.
> 
> Interesting.  The problem I could see here is twofold:
> 
> 1.	How do you know what's coming back is correct?
> 2.	The current http tests don't return a whole page.
> 
> In response to #1, I don't know how you could tell your sites
> are OK.  Simple logic would dictate that you 'grep' for some
> keyword, or something.  provided you can determine an OKness
> test, bb-network.sh has an HTTP test around line 365:

I have a number of sites that I also need to make sure that the contents
are showing up ok.  With regard to #1 above, I would suggest taking a
snapshot of the page (with the wanted content), then do a "fuzzy" diff with
subsequent tests.  Something like a diff command that understands that we
only want to compare lines 3 through 15, then lines 20 through 30, ignoring
differences in the rest of the file.
 
It might be possible to do this by writing a Perl wrapper around diff.
I'll take a crack at it when I get some time (yeah, right :-)).

Tin Le

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