[Xymon] https URL in xymon recipient field causes 'Cannot resolve hostname' error

Fri Oct 13 15:46:06 CEST 2017

Hi to you all,

It was suggested on this list recently that a way of getting Xymon client
sending encrypted messages to the server using the currently Staple version
would be to use *xymoncgimsg.cgi* on the web server over TLS.  The xymon
man page says one can use a URL in the recipient field for HTTP transport.
There is no mention of HTTPS anyway in the man pages, but because it was
suggested on the list I have tried it and it does not work:

It seems to try and resolve https as hostname 'https' rather than
interpreting it as a URL.  For example:

$ xymon https://www.google.com/xymon-cgi/xymoncgimsg.cgi "test"
2017-10-13 12:55:10.323994 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Cannot resolve
hostname)
2017-10-13 12:55:10.324124 ->  Cannot determine IP address of message
recipient https

$ xymon "https\://www.google.com/xymon-cgi/xymoncgimsg.cgi" "test"
2017-10-13 12:55:33.408007 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Cannot resolve
hostname)
2017-10-13 12:55:33.408073 ->  Cannot determine IP address of message
recipient https\

I wonder if there is a trivial fix for this?

P.S.  Using plain old http does work:
$ xymon http://www.google.com/xymon-cgi/xymoncgimsg.cgi "test"
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
...

Many thanks,

SebA
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