check_http plugin and a proxy?

[Bill Jacqmein]

The only problem Ive found with this is the https component. It doesnt
appear to speak "connect" when talking to the proxy.


On 4/21/07, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Frost, Mark {PBG}
> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:18 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_http plugin and a proxy?
> >
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have the Nagios Plugins 1.4.8.  Is it possible to make check_http
> use
> > a proxy to talk to another host?  We had been using an older version
> of
> > check_http_perl which will allow us to use a proxy host.  I'm
> converting
> > most of our checks to use the check_http code and I don't see anything
> > that indicates that I can tell it to use a proxy.  Is this possible?
>
> Yes, using the -H, -I and -u parameters. For example, the following
> command will request www.example.bar through the proxy located at
> $HOSTADDRESS$ via port 8080 and verify that it sees either '/html' or
> '/HTML' --
>
>
> define command {
>     command_name                   check_caching
>     command_line                   $USER1$/check_http -H www.example.bar
> -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 8080 -wt 20 -ct 30 -to 35 -u http://www.example.bar
> -R \/html
>     }
>
> --
> Marc
>
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