[nagiosplug] Clarify that check_http won't verify certificates
Holger Weiss
hweiss at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Feb 24 13:26:28 CET 2012
Module: nagiosplug
Branch: master
Commit: d796c16327e6e315dd528f17e8bd597c5f506730
Author: Holger Weiss <holger at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri Feb 24 13:24:56 2012 +0100
URL: http://nagiosplug.git.sf.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=nagiosplug/nagiosplug;a=commit;h=d796c16
Clarify that check_http won't verify certificates
Add a note to the --help output which clarifies that check_http doesn't
perform certificate verification (beyond what the "-C" option does).
(Suggested by Michael Renner in Debian bug report #644627, forwarded by
Jan Wagner.)
---
plugins/check_http.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/plugins/check_http.c b/plugins/check_http.c
index 433c28e..3175f6c 100644
--- a/plugins/check_http.c
+++ b/plugins/check_http.c
@@ -1400,6 +1400,10 @@ print_help (void)
printf (" %s\n", _("serve content (optionally within a specified time) or whether the X509 "));
printf (" %s\n", _("certificate is still valid for the specified number of days."));
printf ("\n");
+ printf (" %s\n", _("Please note that this plugin does not check if the presented server"));
+ printf (" %s\n", _("certificate matches the hostname of the server, or if the certificate"));
+ printf (" %s\n", _("has a valid chain of trust to one of the locally installed CAs."));
+ printf ("\n");
printf ("%s\n", _("Examples:"));
printf (" %s\n\n", "CHECK CONTENT: check_http -w 5 -c 10 --ssl -H www.verisign.com");
printf (" %s\n", _("When the 'www.verisign.com' server returns its content within 5 seconds,"));
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