https URL in xymon recipient field causes 'Cannot resolve hostname' error
Hi to you all,
It was suggested on this list recently that a way of getting Xymon client sending encrypted messages to the server using the currently Staple version would be to use *xymoncgimsg.cgi* on the web server over TLS. The xymon man page says one can use a URL in the recipient field for HTTP transport. There is no mention of HTTPS anyway in the man pages, but because it was suggested on the list I have tried it and it does not work:
It seems to try and resolve https as hostname 'https' rather than interpreting it as a URL. For example:
$ xymon https://www.google.com/xymon-cgi/xymoncgimsg.cgi "test" 2017-10-13 12:55:10.323994 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Cannot resolve hostname) 2017-10-13 12:55:10.324124 -> Cannot determine IP address of message recipient https
$ xymon "https\://www.google.com/xymon-cgi/xymoncgimsg.cgi" "test" 2017-10-13 12:55:33.408007 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Cannot resolve hostname) 2017-10-13 12:55:33.408073 -> Cannot determine IP address of message recipient https\
I wonder if there is a trivial fix for this?
P.S. Using plain old http does work: $ xymon http://www.google.com/xymon-cgi/xymoncgimsg.cgi "test" <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=en> ...
Many thanks,
SebA
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