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Srinivasan_G_31
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Dec 01, 2014

Http Health monitor

Friends - i have an issue with a http pool where the standard/default http health monitor that comes with the system (GET /\r\n in the Get string and a blank space in the receive) doesn't seem to be ...
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SeanW_82915
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Dec 01, 2014

The default does a HTTP 0.9 request that some web servers don't respond to. What you may want is something like:

GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

One other thing to keep in mind is that a web server with multiple virtual hosts on the same IP needs a distinctive 

Host
header, so you may need to change the example.com above to the name of your website.