[Suggestion] URL Tests can optionally check for presence of a specified string

[alsotop]

In order to make the URL tests more helpful for ensuring a service is online, it could optionally check for the presence of a string that if the URL works, but the string is not found, it will still consider the test as failed. It could perhaps be a different status to differentiate between the URL not loading, and the string not having been found.

Another tool we use has something similar, and I have attached a screenshot. This is a tool called Pingdom which regularly checks websites, and one of the optional features is to check for a string when it looks at the response from the page.

[REBELinBLUE]

Interesting idea

[axeloz]

It's done on my fork. Pending a pull request but not sure how to handle this with my previous pull request. Should I branch from my branch or start from master?

[axeloz]

[REBELinBLUE]

Awesome! Ideally, start from master, but if you want to branch from your roles branch that works as well but I won't be able to merge it until the other branch is, then I imagine there will be merge conflicts

[axeloz]

Yeah, that's the point. I've started from master but there are so many changes with my previous PR that it will conflict quite a lot.