[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-949521 ] --no-body and --max-age options for check_http

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Bugs item #949521, was opened at 2004-05-06 22:39
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Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jamie Zawinski (jwz)
>Assigned to: Ton Voon (tonvoon)
Summary: --no-body and --max-age options for check_http

Initial Comment:
I recently upgraded to Nagios 1.2.0 from an old
Netsaint, and I needed to add a couple of features to
the check_http plugin.

I sent these patches in a couple of years ago, but they
haven't made it into the distribution, so here they are
again...  (I hope you include them this time, so that I
don't have to rewrite this code again the next time I
upgrade...)

Anyway, I added two new options to check_http:

     -N, --no-body
         Don't wait for document body: stop reading
after headers.

I needed this so that I can check for the existence of
Icecast MP3 streams: such streams look like audio/mpeg
files, except that they are of infinite length.

     -M, --max-age=SECONDS
         Warn if the document is more than SECONDS old.

I needed this so that I can check whether my webcam is
still working: if the date on the JPEG file has stopped
updating, the webcam is down.

Here's how I use these:

define command{
 command_name    check_icecast
 command_line    $USER1$/check_http2 -H $HOSTADDRESS$     -p 8000 --no-body -u $ARG1$
 }

define command{
 command_name    check_http_age
 command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTALIAS$     -I $HOSTADDRESS$ --no-body -u $ARG1$ --max-age $ARG2$
 }


The attached patch is against check_http.c 1.24.2.4
from nagios-plugins-1.3.1.

Thanks!


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>Comment By: Ton Voon (tonvoon)
Date: 2004-05-07 06:31

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Jamie,

These sound like decent patches. However, we are not making any more 
enhancements to r1.3.1. Can you provide a patch against CVS? Just one 
more update of the code then :)

Ton

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