check_http confusion / problem

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Jon Angliss wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:01:44 -0500, "David Dyer-Bennet"
> <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> [check_http questions]
>>     
>
> --help usually gives a whole bunch of extra information...
>
>   

Yes, that's where I got the information I had; it's what got me confused 
in the first place.  In particular, help shows a long-form as well as a 
short-form option for -e, and it was while discovering that the 
long-form option given in help doesn't appear to be recognized that I 
ended up with the "-e=400" syntax which is wrong (but which IS accepted).


>> [ddb at prcapp00 dev]$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http
>> --IP-address=192.168.5.3 -p 8075 --no-body -f critical -v -v -v -e="Bad
>> Request"
>> GET / HTTP/1.0
>> User-Agent: check_http/1.99 (nagios-plugins 1.4.6)
>>
>>
>> http://192.168.5.3:8075/ is 168 characters
>> STATUS: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
>> **** HEADER ****
>> Content-Type: text/html
>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:33:44 GMT
>> Connection: close
>> Content-Length: 39
>> **** CONTENT ****
>>  [[ skipped ]]
>> Invalid HTTP response received from host on port 8075
>> [ddb at prcapp00 dev]$ echo $?
>> 2
>>     
>
> Command syntax is incorrect.
>
> # ./check_http -I 192.168.5.3 -p 8075 --no-body -f critical -vvv -e \
>  "Bad Request"
>   

That was the base problem in some sense, thanks.


> I tried against one of my servers without any issues.  Albeit I got a
> critical failure because my server didn't return bad request.
>
> I do notice you're using an old version of the plugins package. 1.4.13
> is the current version, can you download and compile in a different
> directory and see if you still end upw with the same issue?
>   

This is a Centos 4.7 install, and I'm trying to stick to the packaged 
distributions that match each other, rather than going around upgrading 
things at random and hoping they work together.

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