On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> wrote:

Hi all,

as I've seen in the TODO testing https connections via a proxy is still under development. Does someone already have solution maybe with a script and curl that she/he wants to share?

Here's something I wrote to the mailing list on 11/24/08:

"If that one was useful, here's something that may be a bit better. I added a timeout for curl, otherwise it'll wait for a long time if the server doesn't respond. Also, this format produces a message formatted just like Xymon's internal http test, including the time taken to grab the headers. You could extract the "Seconds" line to determine if the response is a bit slow. With a bit more magic in Xymon's configs, you could even graph it..."

As far as curl is concerned, the url can be http:// or https:// - you don't need to do anything special.

Ralph Mitchell

============= cut here ============ #!/bin/sh

TESTHOST=www.google.com TESTURL=https://$TESTHOST/

TIMEOUT=30

Grab *just* the headers, simulating Xymon's builtin http check

MESSAGE=curl -x http://ourproxy.ourdomain.com:8080 \ --proxy-anyauth -U hobbituser:hobbitpassword \ -m $TIMEOUT \ -w 'Seconds: %{time_total}\n' \ -s -S -L -I $TESTURL | $GREP -v Set-Cookie if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then COLOR=green else COLOR=red fi

convert dots to commas in the hostname

MACHINE=echo $TESTHOST | $SED -e 's/\./\,/g'

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.home $COLOR date

$MESSAGE" ============= cut here ============