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wowchens's avatar
wowchens
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Nov 18, 2008

HTTP Monitor Question

Hello: I have an issue with http monitor on my LTM with one the servers. Well, its actually not a server, its Citrix Access Gateway, hardware box. When I set my Pool with http monitor, its not able to...
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hoolio's avatar
hoolio
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Nov 20, 2008
HTTP v1.1 requires a Host header even if the value is empty. It would also be good to tell the server that LTM won't re-use the connection using Connection: close.

 

 

GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n

 

 

It would also be good to set some kind of receive string (like 200 OK or 301 Moved) to ensure that the pool member won't be marked up if it's returning 500 level error codes.

 

 

Aaron