[ale] OT: Website Input

[David Tomaschik]

Not likely to happen, as whatever you put in the URL field is going to come
out looking like:

GET /some/url/here HTTP/1.1
Host: host.company.com
Header: more-headers-here

You can't really use a tool that speaks HTTP to monitor something that
doesn't...


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Robert L. Harris <robert.l.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> I have a system I need to push a string of text through from a URL and I'm
> not sure how to do it.
>
> If I telnet to "host.company.com 80"  I can enter some XML text into the
> resulting connection (no prompt is returned)
>
> <seqnum>1</seqnum>
>
> <encrypt-type>none</encrypt-type><request><method>geturiinfo</method><uid>wr_monitor</uid>
> <uri>google.com<https://owa.webroot.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://google.com>
> </uri></request></bcap>
>
> This causes a service on the inside to return "200 <IP> OK".
>
> I'm using alertsite.com for site monitoring and need to figure out how to
> do this through the "URL" input form.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to format the URL to put the XML in?
>
> Robert
>
>
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