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[tclwebtest] $ in urls

[Tilmann S. <ti...@ti...>]

* James Drabb <JD...@da...> [20031024 16:59]:
> Your tclwebtest tool look great.  However, I am running into an error. 
> We are using Netegrity to protect our sites and allow single sign on
> across our Enterprise.  When we try to go into an application, Netegrity
> stops the request and sends a redirect to a login form.  In my test
> script I am doing  a field fill for the user name and password. 
> However, the URL that Netegrity builds has a $ in one of the parameter
> names which seems to cause tclwebtest to error out.  A typical Netegrity
> URL looks like:
> 
> https://awx.foo.com/siteminder/login.fcc
> ?TYPE=33554433
> &REALMOID=06-604fd5ae-e29c-4d13-9190-df4524801912
> &GUID=
> &SMAUTHREASON=0
> &TARGET=$SM$https%3a%2f%2fpsportal%2efoo%2ecom%2flogin%2ehtml%2f
> 
> I broke the URL into its parts.  The last parameter &Target= is what
> seems to kill tclwebtest since the parameter value has $SM$ at the
> beginning.  Part of the error I get back is:
> 
> can't read "SM": no such variable
>     while executing
> ...
> 
> Is there anyway around this?

I think I fixed it in CVS - could you update and confirm that the
problem is gone when you have time?


thanks, Til



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[tclwebtest] Re: $ in urls

[James D. <JD...@da...>]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 13:18, Tilmann Singer wrote:
> I think I fixed it in CVS - could you update and confirm that the
> problem is gone when you have time?
> 
> 
> thanks, Til

Thanks Til.  Are there any tarballs of the latest CVS?  My corporate
firewall does not allow external CVS.

Jim Drabb
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Re: [tclwebtest] Re: $ in urls

[Tilmann S. <ti...@ti...>]

* James Drabb <JD...@da...> [20031027 14:29]:
> Thanks Til.  Are there any tarballs of the latest CVS?  

Unfortunately not. Actually we could put out a release, just for
fun. Well, propably fix some outstanding bugs before - opinions.

> My corporate firewall does not allow external CVS.

This seems absurd to me, why make people's lives unnecessarily hard
... I know it's not your fault. Are they so security concsious that
also all microsoft operating systems and browsers are banned from use
within the company? If not then what's the point?


til


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Re: [tclwebtest] Re: $ in urls

[James D. <JD...@da...>]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:05, Tilmann Singer wrote:
> * James Drabb <JD...@da...> [20031027 14:29]:
> > Thanks Til.  Are there any tarballs of the latest CVS?  
> 
> Unfortunately not. Actually we could put out a release, just for
> fun. Well, propably fix some outstanding bugs before - opinions.

You could be a nice guy and send me a tarball : )
I put out a few J2EE apps and the first one the company paid around
$50,000 to have some external company to test it and give them a nice
excel sheet with some purdy graphs.  This time the company said they
would do it for only $30,000.  So I am trying to save much cash here by
using tclwebtest.  I tried  a few others, though most were not as
configurable/scriptable to get past Netegrity.

> > My corporate firewall does not allow external CVS.
> 
> This seems absurd to me, why make people's lives unnecessarily hard
> ... I know it's not your fault. Are they so security concsious that
> also all microsoft operating systems and browsers are banned from use
> within the company? If not then what's the point?

It is sad.  Unfortunately the firewall is controlled by MS Admins here
and not the Solaris/Linux admins : (
They allow in telnet and not ssh!  I think they block CVS just because
they don't really know about it and have everything blocked by default
and only open up ports as needed, I think they only understand source
safe.  This is a fortune 500 company by the way.  I would love to get a
hold of that firewall and fix it up, though as a programmer, that is not
one of my job functions.  I still don't understand why in the world they
let telnet through the firewall and not ssh.

> til

P.S.  I noticed at the top of emails from this list it states:
Please consider using an e-mail program other than Outlook.It's insecure
Is this sent to everyone of just me?  I am using Evolution with Ximian
connector to connect to our horrid exchange 2002 server.

Jim Drabb
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The box said: "Requires Windows 98/2000/XP/NT, or better."
So, I installed LINUX!
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Senior Programmer Analyst
Darden Restaurants
Business Systems
JDrabb at Darden dot com

Re: [tclwebtest] Re: $ in urls

[Grzegorz A. H. <gr...@ef...>]

On 2003-10-27, Tilmann Singer <ti...@ti...> wrote:
> * James Drabb <JD...@da...> [20031027 14:29]:
> > Thanks Til.  Are there any tarballs of the latest CVS?  
> 
> Unfortunately not. Actually we could put out a release, just for
> fun. Well, propably fix some outstanding bugs before - opinions.

"Release early, release often.", or, "Source code is like
fertilizer. It stinks when you hoard it, but when you spread it
around, things grow.". Here's a changelog for you to publish at
SF/Freshmeat.

Added -tidy switch, improved usage message.

Andrew Piskorsis improved cookie regexp.

Fixed HTML entity processing in redirects.

Gordon Molek found out query_key_values were forgotten during
http_auth retries.

Small improvements to the documentation. Documented `field get_*'.

Fixed an error in an error message.

Corrected processing of semicolons in redirected urls by eval.

Added -append switch to `field fill'.

Avoiding repetitive use of tidy after chained redirections.

Corrected missing variable declaration when using ~n without
parameter.

Fixing field select to select only the value, not the caption,
thanks to Peter Marklund.

Enclosing location in braces in calls of do_request so that it
works with $ in urls.

> This seems absurd to me, why make people's lives unnecessarily
> hard ... I know it's not your fault. Are they so security concsious
> that also all microsoft operating systems and browsers are banned
> from use within the company?

There would be no company! :) BTW, next week I'm switching job and
moving to another country, so no more funny replies from me for
a while.

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