upstream/monitoring-plugins
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins.git synced 2026-04-28 17:49:11 -04:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

check_curl: try to be more helpful in check_curls help

Browse source 
Trying to be more specific with the check_curl help.
The idea is to clarify how the parameters are supposed to be used.
This commit is contained in:
Lorenz Kästle 2025-11-27 14:29:33 +01:00
parent 0378484a57
commit 9fc1e24543
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

7
plugins/check_curl.c
View file

@ -1480,7 +1480,9 @@ void print_help(void) {
printf(" %s\n", _("Append a port to include it in the header (eg: example.com:5000)"));
printf(" %s\n", "-I, --IP-address=ADDRESS");
printf(" %s\n",
_("IP address or name (use numeric address if possible to bypass DNS lookup)."));
"IP address or name (use numeric address if possible to bypass DNS lookup).\n");
printf(" %s\n",
"This overwrites the network address of the target while leaving everything else (HTTP headers) as they are");
printf(" %s\n", "-p, --port=INTEGER");
printf(" %s", _("Port number (default: "));
printf("%d)\n", HTTP_PORT);
@ -1544,6 +1546,7 @@ void print_help(void) {
printf(" %s\n", _("String to expect in the content"));
printf(" %s\n", "-u, --url=PATH");
printf(" %s\n", _("URL to GET or POST (default: /)"));
printf(" %s\n", _("This is the part after the address in a URL, so for \"https://example.com/index.html\" it would be '-u /index.html'"));
printf(" %s\n", "-P, --post=STRING");
printf(" %s\n", _("URL decoded http POST data"));
printf(" %s\n",
@ -1685,7 +1688,7 @@ void print_help(void) {
printf(" %s\n", _("It is recommended to use an environment proxy like:"));
printf(" %s\n",
_("https_proxy=http://192.168.100.35:3128 ./check_curl -H www.verisign.com -S"));
printf(" %s\n", _("legacy proxy requests in check_http style still work:"));
printf(" %s\n", _("legacy proxy requests in check_http style might still work, but are frowned upon, so DONT:"));
printf(" %s\n", _("check_curl -I 192.168.100.35 -p 3128 -u https://www.verisign.com/ -S -j "
"CONNECT -H www.verisign.com "));
printf(" %s\n", _("all these options are needed: -I <proxy> -p <proxy-port> -u <check-url> "