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Joe_Curl_105786's avatar
Joe_Curl_105786
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Apr 10, 2012

Citrix Web Interface 5.4

I was asked to modify the http header for the monitors that the LTM is doing. They are asking that we include the following in the http header when it does it's health check. Any suggestions to incl...
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MiLK_MaN
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Apr 24, 2012
Hello,

 

 

You can add multiple HTTP headers in the send string of a HTTP monitor, separate with a \r\n (CR/LF).

 

 

As an example, you could do:

 

 

GET /Citrix/XenApp/auth/login.aspx HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)\r\nHost: 1.2.3.4\r\n etc. etc.

 

 

You might want to check out our Citrix deployment guides available @ http://www.f5.com/solutions/resources/deployment-guides/. There are some specific examples of what health monitors should be used for Citrix to check its availability. I know one of the preferred monitors for the Web Interface is to actually do a HTTP POST to pass auth credentials across in the monitor.