As discussed at http://www.xymon.com/archive/2006/07/msg00515.html:

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:50:19PM +0200, Nicolas wrote:

...

It doesn t like the "%3a" strings.

Apparently not. OK, so this will require a code change. For a quick fix, you can edit the lib/url.c file in your Hobbit source. Around line 560-570 or so you'll see these lines:

    if (poststart) getescapestring(poststart, &bburl->postdata, NULL);
    if (expstart)  getescapestring(expstart, &bburl->expdata, NULL);

    p = strstr(urlstart, "/http");	 <--- find this line
    if (p) {
            proxystart = urlstart;
            urlstart = (p+1);
            *p = '\0';
    }

    parse_url(urlstart, bburl->desturl);

Replace the line I've marked with

    p = NULL;

That will simply disable the proxy url function, and your original URL should work as intended.

Regards, Henrik

Hi Henrik,

Obviously it's not the ":" and I wish I would've searched the mailing list earlier ;)

# /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/bin/bbtest-net
2010-10-08 14:31:38 Malformed URL - no 'scheme:' in 'http-proxy-tcp'
2010-10-08 14:31:38 Invalid URL for http test - ignored: 
cont=postgresql;http://my.athabascau.ca/http-proxy-tcp;0
 

Changed that to:

cont=postgresql;http://my.athabascau.ca/tohack;0

and it works well.

Do you have any plans to release an update?

Thanks, Viorel