[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#494835: Bug#494835: nagios-plugins: check_http add default http port to URL

[Brian Stolz]

Hi Jan,

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
> $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H www.tcen.ru -I www.tcen.ru
> HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 5974 bytes in 0,778 seconds |
> time=0,778018s;;;0,000000 size=5974B;;;0
> $ dpkg -l | grep nagios-plugins-basic
> ii  nagios-plugins-basic              1.4.12-5                   Plugins for
> the nagios network monitoring an
>
> Actually I didn't got, what the problem exactly is. Maybe anybody can come
> around with much better examples/configs so that I can reproduce the issue.
>
> Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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>

The problem is that some webservers are configured so that
www1.wowhead.com and www1.wowhead.com:80 are different virtual hosts.
As you can see if you test with both of the hostnames I just provided,
www1.wowhead.com returns a 200 code.  Where as www1.wowhead.com:80
does a 302 redirect to www.wowhead.com instead of giving you a 200
code.

By default, the plugin automatically adds the header:

Host: www1.wowhead.com:80

Ideally it would be nice to be able to provide a flag to not include
the port number in the host.

-- 
- Brian