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rjordan
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Oct 27, 2009

Monitoring a HTTP 204 response

We are load balancing a 3rd party close source HTTP app. When we asked for a page that can be used as a health check, we were given a page that returns a 204 response (no content). I tried various met...
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hoolio
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Oct 27, 2009
There aren't any HTTP headers in the tcpdump snippet you've posted. Are you sure that's the full response the server sends in response to the monitor request?

 

 

Can you try an HTTP 1.1 formatted request for the send string with a receive string of HTTP to start with?

 

 

GET /queryable HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n

 

 

Aaron