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You can do this efficiently with a tcp monitor in which you provide a send string for the server for it to provide some feedback to you that you configure in a receive string. Make sure the receive string contents are only returned when you consider the site up. Click here for an example.

 

 

If you want, you can also write an external monitor that you can script to interrogate your application and provide a status back to bigIP. This page covers the format for the external monitor as well as several examples: Click here