Expanding dynamic service macros for URL use?

[John P. Rouillard]

Hi all:

I was looking at using the action_url in the serviceextinfo object to
pass data to a CGI that would create a trouble ticket. I set up the
URL (split for readability) as:

action_url      https://some_site.com/roundup/create?host="$HOSTNAME$"&
            service="$SERVICEDESC$"&state=$SERVICESTATE$&
            output="$SERVICEOUTPUT$"

or 
            output="$SERVICEOUTPUT:NULL:ping$"

While the HOSTNAME and SERVICEDESC macros work fine, the SERVICEOUTPUT
either in standard or on-demand form along with the SERVICESTATE macro
don't expand. I think they can just expand to the contents shown on
the service information page.

So does anybody else think this would be a good thing to have, or is
it just me?

I am not sure that it is necessary to URL encode them since the "bad"
characters can just be eliminated using illegal_macro_output_chars, so
a SERVICEOUTPUTURL isn't needed, just expansion.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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P.S. I sent it before I rejoined the mailing list and it was
     apparently rejected by the moderator. In case the report was in
     error, I apologize for the duplicate.


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