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Steve_A_130918
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusMonitor Authenticating proxy
I am trying to monitor health on a pair of Clearswift SWG appliances by connecting to external websites.
I have set up an HTTP monitor sending 'get http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http/1.1\r\n\r\n' and if...
PinkieComNimbostratus
NimbostratusI have gotten this to work myself.
It is because the HTTP monitor relies on receiving a "401 Authenticate" message from the initial BASIC auth request to kick in the NTLM negotiation.
Because proxies respond with a "407 Proxy Authenticate" instead of a 401, the monitor doesn't work.
So I wrote the following external monitor: https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/ntlm-authenticated-proxy-external-monitor-1013