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fgf_165674
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Nov 23, 2015

Carriage Return, HTTP Monitor

Hi,   using a HTTP monitor, if I use "\r\n" to get a carriage return, it doesn't work.   For example,   telnet :80 "GET /hello HTTP/1.0" (manual carriage return) -> it works fine, returns a ...
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Nov 23, 2015

Don't put your whole string in quotes. Your send string should just be 

GET /hello HTTP/1.0\r\n
with no quotes.

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    Brad_Parker
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    Nov 23, 2015
    Also, if you're not using auth, you should have a double \r\n. https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/2000/100/sol2167.html