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Moussa_254150's avatar
Moussa_254150
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Jan 27, 2017

Downside of using 401 as receive string on health check

do you see any downside of using receive string 401 instead of 200 on the health check monitor. knowing that we decided to go for 401 after having the SSO enabled on the application. so the health check will never return 200.

 

i am wondering if this has hidden effect

 

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  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
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    Jan 27, 2017

    Hi,

     

    Monitor does not use SSO methods configured on APM (I guess you are using APM when talking about SSO)

     

    if your server request 401, you must define a username / password on monitor to authenticate and get 200 status code.

     

  • Kai_Wilke's avatar
    Kai_Wilke
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    Jan 27, 2017

    Hi Moussa,

     

    by using a anonymous health-check request and accepting the err401 as a valid response, you can not guarantee that the application throws an err500 after a user logs in.

     

    Beside of that, there shouldn't be any additional down sides...

     

    Cheers, Kai