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title = "Nagios Curl Plugin"
description = "a [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org) plugin replacing check_http"
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In my job I'm sometimes the deputy of the system administrator. 
Using nagios/zabbix/SNMP for monitoring I needed a decent plugin 
for Nagios to do HTTP alive checks. The standard one had some problems 
mainly with chunked transfer encoding, thus I hacked a plugin using the
excellent [libCurl library](http://curl.haxx.se).

Further development goes on as 'check_curl' in
[monitoring-plugins](https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins)
in branch
feature_check_curl. If you want help out testing or developing it
should happen there.

An old archived version of the plugin can be found at
http://git.andreasbaumann.cc/cgit/nagios-plugin-curl/.