[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Feature Requests-731555 ] arbitrary headers in check_http

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Feature Requests item #731555, was opened at 2003-05-02 14:30
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nicholas Riley (nriley)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: arbitrary headers in check_http

Initial Comment:
For some servers I monitor, a normal HTTP request will
not succeed; it's necessary to add a particular HTTP
header to get it to work. I've modified my copy of
check_http to send this header, but it would be easier
if it provided an option similar to wget's --header, to
send an arbitrary header. It would look something like
this:

check_http -I my.broken.server -h 'Foo: Bar'

and check_http would send:

GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: my.broken.server
User-Agent: check_http...
Foo: Bar

This seems simple enough that I'm not sure it's worth
the trouble to submit a patch, but if you want one, let
me know.

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>Comment By: Nicholas Riley (nriley)
Date: 2003-05-03 15:10

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AFAIK, POST data would not answer my example. The headers
need to be sent before the CR-LF-CR-LF after which POST data
is sent.

I can't use check_tcp because I'm connecting via SSL. (Sorry
that wasn't in my example; I was attempting to simplify it
for the purpose of the example).  check_tcp would probably
work if I weren't connecting via SSL, but it'd be cumbersome
to have to embed the HTTP request-response in a shell script
or .cfg file.

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Comment By: Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop)
Date: 2003-05-03 06:15

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You can submit POST data, which would answer your example.

You could also use check_tcp.

Are you sure you can't do what you want with the existing code?

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Comment By: Nicholas Riley (nriley)
Date: 2003-05-02 18:32

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OK, here you go.

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Comment By: Subhendu Ghosh (sghosh)
Date: 2003-05-02 15:18

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patches always help speed up the process.

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