[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Feature Requests-1652471 ] check_http is missing http Accept: header

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Feature Requests item #1652471, was opened at 2007-02-05 15:59
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Andreas Vavra (vavra)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: check_http is missing http Accept: header

Initial Comment:
check_http is not sending an "Accept:" header when connecting to http servers.

Please add something like

  /* Accept Header */
  asprintf (&buf, "%sAccept: text/html\r\n",buf);

in function check_http() in check_http.c somewhere after 

  /* optionally send the host header info */
  if (host_name)
    asprintf (&buf, "%sHost: %s\r\n", buf, host_name);


If you can spend some more time on this plugin, optionally add a command line parameter to let caller set/override this option (i.e. for changing "Accept:" from "text/html" to "text/xml").

Regards
Andi


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>Comment By: Matthias Eble (psychotrahe)
Date: 2007-05-10 18:59

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Hi Andreas,

I'm going to redirect this one to the feature request tracker since
Accept isn't a mandatory field in http.

You could add the Accept header by using -k. from --help:
-k, --header=STRING
Any other tags to be sent in http header. Use multiple times for
additional headers

I havent tried it yet, but it should work.

However, to a test if the received document matches a specified mime type
could make sense to me.

Matthias

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