[Nagiosplug-devel] check_http bug?

[David Beuving]

Hello,

I have found a certain behavior in the check_http plugin that seems like 
a bug to me.

When using the plugin in verbose mode, it responds showing this as part 
of the report:

http://ipaddress:port/path

This leads me to believe that it is sending the ipaddress as the host 
header rather than the hostname, but after looking at the code it is 
clear the check works by sending the hostname it simply shows ipaddress 
in the verbose response.

I have replaced line 912 in check_http.c:
use_ssl ? "https" : "http", server_address,
with
use_ssl ? "https" : "http", host_name ? host_name : server_address,

Please let me know if this is a bug and something you will update in the 
next release or if it is meant to work this way.

Thanks,
David