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hoolio
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Sep 21, 2009

Effect of 'drop/discard' in HTTP_RESPONSE event?

Hi,     I'm wondering what drop/discard actually do when called from HTTP_RESPONSE. I don't have an easy way to test the customer's exact scenario, so I'm hoping someone here can tell me w...
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spark_86682
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Aug 30, 2010
By default, HTTP::retry may just resend the original request, but you can supply a different one for it to send instead. However, if you cannot send any HTTP request at all to your second server (meaning, the server that is going to supply the response which causes a response to be sent to the client), then I don't see any way for you to accomplish this. In such a case, what are you sending to that server? I mean, you're not expecting that server to initiate the TCP connection, right?