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NaydenDunkov_27
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Jun 21, 2016

External Monitor for checking proxy authentication and Internet access

Hello Experts, We are load balancing 3 proxy servers and we are trying to construct an external monitor that both checks if an user can authenticate to the proxy and access the internet. So far w...
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NaydenDunkov_27
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Jun 22, 2016

Hello all,

We managed to get the things done by simple HTTP monitor.

GET HTTP://www.google.com. HTTP/1.1\r\n Proxy-Authorization: Basic  \r\nHost: www.google.com.sg\r\nAccept: /\r\n

And expecting 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Cheers, Nayden