[collectd] write_http not working

[Paul Sadauskas]

Hi Anil

Yes, it works for us, we're using it. For the first part, basic/digest
auth, there is a patch that got applied to the 4.8 branch that uses
both, but it doesn't look like it got forwarded to the 4.9 branch. I
pinged octo on IRC, hopefully this will be fixed soon.

I'm not sure what webserver you're using, but the write_http plugin
uses PUTVAL-style plaintext data in the body of the POST. Depending on
what webserver you're using, it might not be in QUERY_STRING. In the
rails app where we use it, for example, the data is in `request.body`.

I hope this helps, if not, come find me in the IRC #collectd channel.

Paul


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Anil <replicase at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul, just CC'ing you on this. Is this plugin supposed to work?
> I could be interpreting this wrong but liburl expects CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
> data to be properly formatted, perhaps with the key=value pairing.
>
> Is this why it doesn't work? (of course I hacked it to send some dummy data
> but it didn't work though... so I am sure I must be wrong.)
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Anil <replicase at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am having trouble using the write_http plugin. On the web server, there
>> is nothing in the QUERY_STRING environment variable. I tried both with basic
>> and HTTP digest (I changed the code to use basic).
>>
>> Looking at the code, curl_easy_perform() returns with 0. There are no
>> errors.
>>
>> Does the HTTP auth plus the POST variables get sent with the same request?
>> I see the Authorization credentials but not the data. collectd is in fact
>> reporting that it is capturing all the data and sending it.
>>
>> Thanks
>
>