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flomkrl_29950
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Feb 29, 2008

Monitor http - CR LF add by F5

Hello,     I'm writing a POST HTTP to test a SOAP services. It is the same as a POST request send by the soap client (i compare it with tcpdum trace). The only difference is that the F5 add "CR ...
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hoolio
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Feb 29, 2008
I don't think there is anyway to avoid the extra \r\n that the monitoring daemon adds to the send string. It might have been viewed as a feature at some point, but obviously it creates problems with POST requests that have a body as RFC's state there shouldn't be any content past the content-length count.

 

 

I'd suggest opening a case with F5 and find out whether there is already a CR requesting to have this tweak removed.

 

 

To work around this issue, you could create an external monitor which references a perl or shell script. The shell script can open a connection using curl to send a POST request to the pool members. There are some good examples in the monitoring codeshare section.

 

 

Aaron