check_http encrypted link

[Mike Chesnut]

On 05/09/2011 07:20 AM, Tristan Drinkwater wrote:
> I’m struggling to check a http link that’s encrypted.
>
> The full url works ok in a browser but I get ‘unable to open a TCP
> socket’ error when I run ‘check_http –H domain/encrypted link’ from the
> command line.
>
> I’ve also tried ‘check_http –H domain –u /encrypted link” but that’s not
> working either.
>
> Is check_http even able to check such a thing?

If by encrypted you mean served over SSL (i.e., https), then all you 
should have to do is include the "-S" parameter to check_http.

You probably would want to do "-p 443" also.

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