Help with External HTTP Monitor (cURL) - Requires http authentication

The sample username and password of testuser:superpassword are already base64 encoded in the Authorization header I included in the example send string. If that isn't the actual username and password the app expects, you can base64 encode the actual username and password using an online tool like this: http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Encode/Default.aspx

 

 

The format for the username and password is username:password base64 encoded, so you can include the two fields in that online form for the base64 encoding and replace ZGRlbmJvdzpiYWJ5cmVuMQ== with the actual encoded value in the send string I posted above.

 

 

If that doesn't work, then you can either troubleshoot the issue or start looking at the external monitor again. To troubleshoot monitors, you can either enable bigd debug or use tcpdump. See this post for details on enabling bigd debug: http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&view=topic&postid=58171&ptarget=58182

 

 

Aaron