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Ricardo_77091
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Mar 26, 2009

HTTP Monitor that follows redirects

We are trying to configure an HTTP monitor to monitor a .NET application and mark the member as down if it does not receive the response it expects. The problem is that the first response is a 401 Una...
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hoolio
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Mar 26, 2009
Will the application accept basic authentication? Or does it only use NLTM? If the former, you could include an auth header in the monitor send string. The header name is Authorization and the value should be a base64 encoded user:pass. The send string would be something like:

 

 

GET /monitor_page.asp\r\nAuthorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: close\r\n

 

 

If it's NTLM you couldn't use a standard HTTP monitor to authenticate against the application as it requires multiple dynamic HTTP requests to perform the authentication. I think curl supports NTLM auth though, so you could potentially write an external monitor which references curl to do this.

 

 

Aaron