1 files changed, 25 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/check_curl.c b/plugins/check_curl.c
index 4a1fb647..f63cdea2 100644
--- a/plugins/check_curl.c
+++ b/plugins/check_curl.c
@@ -239,10 +239,35 @@ mp_subcheck check_http(const check_curl_config config, check_curl_working_state
         // ==============
         CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl_state.curl);
 
+        if (verbose > 1) {
+                printf("* curl_easy_perform returned: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));
+        }
+
         if (verbose >= 2 && workingState.http_post_data) {
                 printf("**** REQUEST CONTENT ****\n%s\n", workingState.http_post_data);
         }
 
+         // curl_state is updated after curl_easy_perform, and with updated curl_state certificate checks can be done
+         // Check_http tries to check certs as early as possible, and exits with certificate check result by default. Behave similarly.
+#ifdef LIBCURL_FEATURE_SSL
+        if (workingState.use_ssl && config.check_cert) {
+                if (verbose > 1) {
+                        printf("* adding a subcheck for the certificate\n");
+                }
+                mp_subcheck sc_certificate = check_curl_certificate_checks(
+                        curl_state.curl, cert, config.days_till_exp_warn, config.days_till_exp_crit);
+
+                mp_add_subcheck_to_subcheck(&sc_result, sc_certificate);
+                if (!config.continue_after_check_cert) {
+                        if (verbose > 1) {
+                                printf("* returning after adding the subcheck for certificate, continuing after "
+                                           "checking the certificate is turned off\n");
+                        }
+                        return sc_result;
+                }
+        }
+#endif
+
         mp_subcheck sc_curl = mp_subcheck_init();
 
         /* Curl errors, result in critical Nagios state */
@@ -283,18 +308,6 @@ mp_subcheck check_http(const check_curl_config config, check_curl_working_state
         // Evaluation
         // ==========
 
-#ifdef LIBCURL_FEATURE_SSL
-        if (workingState.use_ssl && config.check_cert) {
-                mp_subcheck sc_certificate = check_curl_certificate_checks(
-                        curl_state.curl, cert, config.days_till_exp_warn, config.days_till_exp_crit);
-
-                mp_add_subcheck_to_subcheck(&sc_result, sc_certificate);
-                if (!config.continue_after_check_cert) {
-                        return sc_result;
-                }
-        }
-#endif
-
         /* we got the data and we executed the request in a given time, so we can append
          * performance data to the answer always
          */