[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#644627: Bug#644627: nagios-plugins-basic: check_http --ssl doesn't verify the validity of a certificate

[Michael Renner]

On Feb 23, 2012, at 13:55 , Jan Wagner wrote:

> that was not my point. I asked, _where_ do you expect such an information. And 
> while we are at it, maybe you can tell me, _what_ do you expect at this place. 
> Feel free to provide patches and/or just the text.

Sorry, misinterpreted you there :S

I'd describe it something like this:

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 -S, --ssl
   Connect via SSL. Port defaults to 443. See below for details.

[..]

 This plugin can also check whether an SSL enabled web server is able to
 serve content (optionally within a specified time) or whether the X509 
 certificate is still valid for the specified number of days.

 Please note that this plugin does not check if the presented server
 certificate matches the hostname of the server or if the certificate
 has a valid chain of trust to one of the locally installed CAs."

[..]

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best,
Michael