Monit HTTPD Documentation seems to be outdated

I was trying to understand the HTTP API so I could do some monit control in a Python script (I want to start stop and check status for example), I found the docs to be misleading:

https://mmonit.com/documentation/http-api/Methods/Status

An example snippet says this should work:

curl -b ~/.mmonit/cookie \
 http://127.0.0.1:8080/status/hosts/list

In my case my server is using port 2812, but when I make a request I just get an error (there is no auth):

$ curl http://localhost:2812/status
<html><head><title>404 Not Found</title></head><body bgcolor=#FFFFFF><h2>Not Found</h2>There is no service by that name<p><hr><a href='http://mmonit.com/monit/'><font size=-1>monit 5.6</font></a></body></html>

I managed to find a python script which did (most) of what I wanted (monitor/unmonitor doesn't appear to work):

https://github.com/polymeris/python-monit

$ curl http://localhost:2812/_status

Works fine and returns the expected status output, but I don't see this documented anywhere

I checked the man file and I see notes on how to enable the HTTPD API, but I don't see any usage examples there. Is there anywhere I can go to get this information? I couldn't turn anything else up in my investigation.

Thanks

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