$HOSTNOTESURL$ being mangled (removing '&' char).

[Eli Stair]

Thanks for tipping me back to the obvious.  It was indeed the illegal 
output macro setting stripping that.  I've been doing this long enough I 
should've remembered to look for something that I wasn't actually 
thinking of.

Cheers,

/eli

Michael Alger wrote:
> Eli Stair wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm posting this to -devel after hearing no input from -users since 
>> Friday.  I don't see anything obvious in the way HOSTNOTESURL is 
>> handled in utils.c, and am out of my league enough to not be able to 
>> track it further in the source.  In my tests the URL is always written 
>> properly in the "Extra Host Notes" entry in the CGI's, but ampersand 
>> is always ignored when expanded in the alert (\& does nothing different).
> 
> 
> Check your illegal_macro_output_chars setting in the main Nagios 
> configuration file. Since & is a shell metacharacter, it is included in 
> the set by default. The example configuration doesn't explicitly mention 
> the HOSTNOTESURL macro, but it makes sense it would be applied to 
> everything used in the notification commands.
> 
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