Re: {bb} Testing Web Server - 500 error

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:17 -0600, bb@buglecreek.com wrote:
> We have been testing a  external web server for about two years now and
> usually received a 405 response code back.  We modified BB to indicate
> that this was a green condition.  Well it seems that the site no longer
> will accept head requests and returns a 500 Internal Server Error.  Is
> there any suggestions on how to test the site now that it will no longer
> handle head requests.  GET requests return a 405 which we can live with,
> but we really do not want to modify BB to test all sites with a GET
> request instead of a head request unless we have to.  Is there any
> suggestions on how to handle this one site?

The comments in the source suggest that the syntax:

  http://blah.com "GET /"

should do what you want.

Otherwise, there are content monitoring scripts available on
Deadcat that should be able to help.

Cheers, Phil.



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