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Regex issue in http advance sensor

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Hello all,

I have an HTTP Advance Sensor that loads one url and tries to find a vaule in the page using "Response Must Include" field, with a regex:

(companyName|\[.+\])

That is, either the string "companyName", or two square brackets with any text in between them (the "\" are used to make "[" literal). However, this regex, although works well in regex testers, does not work here, and i get :

Error: String not found [(companyName\|\[.+\])]

any ideas why?

Any help would be appreciated!

http-sensor prtg regex

Created on Jan 4, 2016 2:42:44 PM



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This can be done in the sensor settings: HTTP Advanced Sensor - Regex string check

Created on Jan 6, 2016 2:33:09 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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The regex seems to be fine (given that the companyName is entered correctly since regex is case sensitive per default). Did you actually enable the regex check method?

Created on Jan 6, 2016 9:16:39 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Thank you for your replay. How do i Enable it? I went through the manual and did not find any mention of enabling it.

Regards

Created on Jan 6, 2016 11:51:40 AM



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This can be done in the sensor settings: HTTP Advanced Sensor - Regex string check

Created on Jan 6, 2016 2:33:09 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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I totally missed that. Thank you Stephan!

Created on Jan 6, 2016 3:05:55 PM



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Ha, nice! :) Glad we found it so quickly :) Have a good one!

Created on Jan 6, 2016 3:42:29 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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