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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 taking care of a monitoring system using nagios. 
For monitoring web sites I needed a decent plugin  for Nagios to do
HTTP(s) alive checks. The standard 'check_http' plugin 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).
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/.