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Clarify that check_http won't verify certificates

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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.)
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Holger Weiss 2012-02-24 13:24:56 +01:00
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@ -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,"));