Testing Ignition without a web-browser

[mquinn]

I’d like to be able to test that Ignition is running properly on my system without having a web browser. Of course, I can check that the service claims to be running but I’d like to be able to make sure that the web interface is working properly.

I’m running Linux without a GUI. When I do the logical thing: curl https://myserver.mydomain:8043 I get nothing back. When I add the -L option to follow redirects I get back “curl: (47) Maximum (50) redirects followed”. Surely there’s some simple way to get the ignition homepage html to dump out to the screen.

[kcollins1]

You’re tripping on the redirect loop because curl doesn’t retain cookies by default. Try:

$ curl -b "" -L https://myserver.mydomain:8043

You might also benefit from retrieving the gateway state from our status endpoint or gateway system info as well, e.g.:

[mquinn]

Perfect, thank you. I knew it was something simple I was missing, you just saved me a day of digging to figure that out.