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Werk #305: apache_status: Fixed exception when agent reports HTML code as apache-status data

Component Checks & agents
Title apache_status: Fixed exception when agent reports HTML code as apache-status data
Date Dec 9, 2013
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.5i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

When the apache-status module is not enabled or the webserver is somehow missconfigured, the agents HTTP request to the apache-status URL might return HTML code instead of the expected textual response. Added code to detect HTML code and skip the webserver instance in this case.

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