Perl script to dynamically monitor web pages

Question

I'm tweaking a perl script that I use to monitor sites (response times etc.) and I'm running into issues using Nagios::WebTransact.

I want to be able to post to a page on one of my sites, get a response, and use the values in that response to post to the next page. It doesn't look like Nagios::WebTransact supports this. I read it has "limited ability to respond to dynamic web pages".

Is there an alternative I can use or possibly a feature of WebTransact that I am unaware of?

Answer 1

I am not familiar with Nagios::WebTransact, but would suggest looking into WWW::Mechanize

Answer 2

My solution ended up being to parse the response text, which you can get using check() on the transaction. Not the solution I was hoping for but it was still workable.