Accepting HTTP 401?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Samantha Edwards
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Accepting HTTP 401?
> 
> Hello All
> 
> First post so please bear with me. I am looking to see if there is
> anyway that I would be able to have nagios accept a HTTP 401 as a
valid
> response from a server?  I'm running Nagios version 2.0b3 and have
only
> been sorting through - here's my command definition, which I believe
is
> generic
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    check_http
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$
>         }
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You would need to modify check_http.c around line 987 --

/* client errors result in a warning state */
else if (http_status >= 400)
    die (STATE_WARNING, _("HTTP WARNING: %s\n"), status_line);

Either comment out the else/die lines or modify them to specifically
exclude the 401 response.

--
Marc


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