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IainThomson85_1
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Sep 13, 2016

HTTPS OPTIONS Request

Hopefully this is a simple one.   I'm wanting to create a HTTPS monitor which queries the server for HTTP OPTIONS,   Can't figure out a way to do this, (or even if its possible) any guidance ap...
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ekaleido
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Sep 13, 2016

It should essentially be the same format as a GET, but you'll want to specify the Request-URI to get options for a specific resource, otherwise you could do * to get general server options. Maybe the following for a Send string:

 

OPTIONS /resource.api HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.example.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n

 

And the receive would be:

 

WHATEVEROPTION(S)YOUCONSIDERSUCCESSFUL

 

My formatting on the Send is probably a bit off, as well.