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 With this agent plugin you can monitor URLs from the perspective of the monitored host and not the monitoring server ;-)
 
-It is build around cURL from [https://curl.se/](https://curl.se/) based on an idea of Christian Wirtz (doc@snowheaven.de) and Ingo Hambrock.
+It is build around cURL from [https://curl.se/](https://curl.se/) based on an idea of Christian Wirtz (doc[at]snowheaven[dot]de) and Ingo Hambrock.
 
 cURL supports a lot of different protocols like: 
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