[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: check_http is flakey / doesn't work all the time

[Karl DeBisschop]

Peter Krzystofiak writes: 

> Hello all, 
> 
> My check_http plugin is flakey.  For example if yahoo.com is up and I run
> a check_http against it, Nagios will state that it is not online and I will
> receive an Error recv() message. 
> 
> Other times, the plugin works just fine.  Is there a source update,
> or a fix for this.  Has anyone else experienced this or have 
> a solution to get around this problem?

A separate thread turned up a bug caused by spurious CRLF in check_http. 

I wonder if yahoo has slightly differing software in their hardware pool, 
and thus some might be sensitive to the bug and others not. I'd be 
interested to know if the current CVS fixes your problem. 

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Karl