Using forms on HTML pages

dfoley · Post by **dfoley** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:13 am

I am not sure if this is possible but then HostMonitor seems to be able to accomplish most anything. We want to login to a web page (this works well) and then start a search for default item (a PDF Document)
Then pull this PDF document
Good result would be document is available and downloaded.

The whole idea is to test that IBM FileNet ISRA document viewer is working.

Thank You
dfoley

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:46 am

URL and HTTP test can perform just 1 request.
In some cases you may setup several test items to perform several requests in a row but this does not work with most authentication schemes.
I cannot say if this may work in your case because I need to know how exactly you implemented authentication on your server: basic HTTP? NTLM? some custom forms plus client-side cookies? login based on some information stored on server side (e.g. some servers keep IP address of logged user so following requests may work without authentication)?

Regards
Alex

dfoley · Post by **dfoley** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:07 am

Alex - That gave me an idea - I checked the web site and I can connect direct to the "Dispatcher" page once I have logged in. HostMonitor already logs in as a test every 10 minutes so I added a URL test to the FileNet dispatcher

https://xxxxxx.xx..com:443/ISRA/Dispatcher?action_command=getDocumentContentViewer&docId=100025

When I put this URL in a browser it comes back with a "SAVE FILE" dialog box. Within HostMonitor it just comes back with "Host Alive". Am I right in assuming that the test is working correctly?

Thank You

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:13 am

I think so. "Host is alive" for URL/HTTP test means web server responds with HTTP code "Ok", no errors, etc.

Regards
Alex