Bash script to monitor server HTTP output length and e-mail an alert

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Below is an example of a script that uses CURL to monitor the length of various HTTP server outputs and output a response if this is different than 103 characters.
This is my first bash script, so I had some reading/experimenting to do and it is quite rough.



Menelaos Bakopoulos

Mr. Menelaos Bakopoulos is currently pursuing his PhD both at Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTiF) at Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark and Athens Information Technology (AIT) in Athens, Greece. He received a Master in Information Technology and Telecommunications Systems from Athens Information Technology and a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Management Information Systems from the American College of Thessaloniki. Since April 2008 he has been a member of the Multimedia, Knowledge, and Web Technologies Group.

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