HTTP POST used in WPM

dihris,

Could you specify exactly what you're trying to do?  WPM supports the ability to record things like filling out and submitting a web form.

-Craig

Hello Craig,

I have web servers configured to respond on POST requests only.

If I try and record URL from one of those web servers with WPM recorder I get "Page cannot be displayed" HTML error 405 which is what I would expect as initially WPM recorder sends GET request that is not being accepted by the web server.

What I'm looking is to set a monitoring for URL where I can send POST request with data enclosed in the request message's body and then verify what is needed.

To wrap it up I have the following:

POST URL: https://mydomain.com

POST data: set of parameters sent to the web page wrapped in POST request message body

Expected result: "text string"

I need to be able to monitor the POST URL by sending POST data on regular intervals and verifying the "text string" as a result.

Thanks

Hello dihris,

a best way to simulate this behavior would be to create a simple page with form on it which would upon submitting sent POST data to your site. You could then record the navigation to this page, click on the submit button and then use text verify feature. This created page must be accessible from all playback locations where transactions based on this recording will be played.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Lukas

Hello Lukas,

Yes, this kind of solution would work if there are handful of web servers and all of them are using the same POST data for monitoring. In addition to that you add additional layer of failure where the webpage that you create can go down which automatically will prompt the monitoring system to flag all monitored web servers as down.

I have multiple web servers using different POST data for being checked and I do not see your solution feasible for that kind of setup.

I was thinking of writing a script which would perform the POST against my web sites and then verifying what is needed.  Once the script is written, trigger it using the External Process Monitor.

dihris,

as we are relying on the Internet Explorer during the recording and the playback and Internet Explorer doesn't allow you to create the POST request to page directly. I'm afraid that this kind of recording is currently not possible. The only way to workaround this I can think of right now is the one I suggested previously.

Lukas

Hello Lukas,

Thank You for clarifying this case.

Is POST request feature is something that you consider implementing in future releases of SolarWinds WPM?

For example allowing the user to select different browser for WPM recording as Chrome and Firefox do support this kind of request.

Thank You

is what you're trying to monitor at all related to, or similar to JSON or SOAP?

Hi dihris,

I logged this as a feature reuqest in our system.

Peter

We just encounter same issue with IE. Our website is written with Joomla and IE does not handle it very well. Our developers basically to recommend to use Chrome and Firefox. But I understand that Solarwinds WPM is based on IE and it does not work right and keep getting false messages. I hope they can do that a feature request rather quickly.