Script to determine if an HTTP reponse is from intended domain.

Question

I am trying to write a script that will send an HTTP "GET" to a URL then determine if the response came from the same domain or not.

I have been playing around with VBS and the WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1 object. Sadly this does not give me any access to where exactly the response came from.

I tried parsing through the response headers but that only yields results if the web-server sets a cookie with the server's domain in it. For example (in my script below) "google.com" will pass but "avg.com" will fail.

I am not very attached to my current script and gladly will change if anyone knows a better way.

My current script:

  Dim objWinHttp
  Dim strContent, strURL
  Set objWinHttp = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
  objWinHttp.SetTimeouts 29000, 29000, 29000, 29000
  objWinHttp.Option(0) = "Website_monitor_light/1.0"
  objWinHttp.Option(6) = True
  If (InStr(WScript.Arguments.Item(0), "www.") = 1) Then
   URL = "http://" & WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
  Else
   URL = "http://www." & WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
  End If
  objWinHttp.Open "GET", URL
  On Error Resume Next
  objWinHttp.Send()
  If (objWinHttp.Status = 200) Then
   strContent = objWinHttp.GetAllResponseHeaders
  End If
  Wscript.Quit InStr(strContent, "domain=." & Mid(URL,12))

Thanks a million.

Answer 1

Sounds like you simply want the WinHttpRequest object to NOT follow redirect responses automatically. Check out the WinHttpRequestOption_EnableRedirects option. This is set to TRUE by default, you need to turn it off.