Web monitoring and Basic Authentication

[jko66]

Hi all,

How can I monitor a webpage with basic authentication with this nice little
feature called "Web Monitoring"?

Many thanks

[cdm710]

I am also interested in this feature, but do not know how to implement it. Any help would be appreciated.

[bvankuik]

Wild guess: can't you query the URL with username/password inserted?

Like:

http://username:[email protected]/url/path/

[rajan.s.ravi]

Hi,

Any success on this ? i also have a page which has basic authentication, how to i pass on the credentials in the scenario definition ?

Regards,
Ravi

[jko66]

Sorry, no way. The syntax seems to be to old and I think URLs like name:Password@www.www.com are a security risk.

[rxm8028]

More Authentication issues

Thanks to this discussion, I was able to determine that the "http"//user[email protected]" variation of a URL does indeed work for http "Basic" Authentication. I have another problem now.
I want to monitor a web interface on a network switch to determine what MAC addresses are connected to a given port. This information does not seem to be available through SNMP. The administrative interface for the switch uses a JavaScript pop-up window for capturing the login name and password.
The code that produces this is shown below:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
  var newWind=window.open("password.html","subwindow","height=250,width=450");
//-->
</script>

Any ideas about how I might work through this with the Web Monitoring features of Zabbix 1.4.2?

Thanks