[smokeping-users] 2.2.6 on ubuntu and Curl is no longer working with SSL

[Russell Dwarshuis]

I haven't actually tried curl with https, but my guess is that since 
status 77 is (according to the man page) "Problem with reading the SSL CA 
cert (path? access rights?)" that you probably want to add
extraargs = --insecure
to your Curl probe section.  If you do care about checking the 
certificate, see the curl web site 'SSL Certs' link for details on how to 
add and use the certificates.


                                           -Russell Dwarshuis

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Ian Griswold wrote:

> OK, built a new Ubuntu 7.10 server and did a fresh install of SmokePing
> 2.2.6 from the tarball, no apt.  Worked things over for a while and
> imported the old smokeping "config" file.
>
> Volia, everythign looks great, EXCEPT I'm using the Curl probe for web
> site stats.  When the target is using SSL, thus url-https://. . ., I get
> a message like:
>
> smokeping[29629]: Curl: WARNING: curl exited with status 77 on
> www.xyz.net
>
> So what's up with the 77 error?  Please note that this config works fine
> with SmokePing 2.1.6.
>
> CONFIG EXPAMPLE:
> PROBE
> + Curl
> # probe-specific variables
> binary = /usr/bin/curl
> step = 60
> offset = random
> # a default for this target-specific variable
> urlformat = http://%host%/
>
> TARGET
> +++ MY_GP--web
> probe = Curl
> menu = my.********.com--web
> title = my.********.com--web
> host = my.*********.com
> pings = 5
> urlformat = https://my.*********.com/
> alerts = bigloss,rttdetect
> alertee = **********@globalpay.com
>
>