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ghost-rider_124's avatar
ghost-rider_124
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May 13, 2013

http monitor with authentication

Hi Expert   There is one http applicaiton (sharepoint), I created the http montior and put the username/password but it is not working. Through tcpdump, I got that it is saying unathorized. Can an...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Jul 27, 2015

Without a receive string, the monitor will mark up any response at all. It very well could be that the response is a 401 (because auth is failing).

You could technically (probably) use

401 Unauthorized

as your receive string and not add credentials.