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| author |  Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
| 2012-02-24 13:24:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
| 2012-02-24 13:24:56 +0100 |
| commit | d796c16327e6e315dd528f17e8bd597c5f506730 (patch) | |
| tree | 76e67062357d81f9852d3546784f86e28471595c /plugins/check_http.c | |
| parent | b93c8eebc70153866d8c5a6872b6c7c4ccd94860 (diff) | |
| download | monitoring-plugins-d796c16327e6e315dd528f17e8bd597c5f506730.tar.gz | |
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.)
Diffstat (limited to 'plugins/check_http.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 433c28e3..3175f6cb 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,")); |