I'm very familiar with that particular comic lol. I'd recommend inspecting the code for the sendmodalert script (I believe it's supposed to be python??) - if you have direct access to the Splunk Server and are comfortable with it. What I would do is I would try to enhance the error output to include more details - like the domain and/or URL that is causing the error. Never got those particular errors resolved. I thought they were related to an issue I was having where the splunk server stopped attempting to send any alerts, but that appeared to be caused by something else.
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