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flomkrl_29950
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusMonitor 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 ...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusI 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
