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  • hannibal20
    Junior Member
    • Jan 2007
    • 22
    #1

    Web monitoring - http headers

    Hi,

    I have to monitor a picky webapp. It's a java app, reachable via HTTP. It expects a POST with Content-Type with one of the following:
    - 'application/soap+xml'
    - 'text/xml'
    - 'multipart/related'

    Zabbix queries the webapp with a POST, which content type is set to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' (the default from libcurl), and the app responds with an error because of the content-type header.

    Is there a possibility to add custom headers to httpstep or httptest? libcurl is very flexible in that matter (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_e...LOPTHTTPHEADER). It could be a simple field where one could insert his own headers, ie:
    - tell the app what is the content-type of the POST
    - pass a custom Host/Accept string
    - pass a custom X-* header to tell the app to make some assumptions
    - etc
    Tags: curl, header, headers, http, webapp, webmonitoring
    • zabbix_zen
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2009
      • 426
      #2
      I see this as being useful for more people in the longterm.

      It's probably relevant to open a request in the Tracker
      Log into Atlassian - ZABBIX SUPPORT
      https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT

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        • cferraro
          Junior Member
          • Jun 2011
          • 16
          #3
          Here are 2 feature requests related to adding additional curl support

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          https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-282


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          https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-403


          Vote them up if they are important to you.

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            • zabbix_zen
              Senior Member
              • Jul 2009
              • 426
              #4
              Already did it,
              a long time ago

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                • fpaternot
                  Member
                  Zabbix Certified Specialist
                  • Feb 2013
                  • 52
                  #5
                  +1

                  Looking for this feature too ;
                  i want to change the http header request so i can fetch a website healthcheck and give the webserver the vhost i should be coming from
                  I say should because i'm really not. The vhost is loadbalanced and i want to monitor all webservers, not just the delivery of the content from the loadbalancer.


                  Code:
                  ~$ curl -H 'Host: my.vhostsome.domain.com' http://webserver:8000/healthcheck
<html>
<body>
WORKING
</body>
</html>

~$ curl http://webserver:8000/healthcheck
<html>
<head><title>400 Bad Request</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
~$

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