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Plumtree_72679
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Jan 11, 2012

Sending User-Agent headers properly in health monitor

Folks,     An application (Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.0) throws warnings in the logs (filling them up) each time it is hit by an F5 health monitor. This is because the app is trying to r...
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Plumtree_72679
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Jan 11, 2012
Thanks folks! The solution was, as nitass said, to add a null host header:

 

 

monitor portal_http-test {

 

defaults from http

 

dest *:7001

 

recv "Test Passed"

 

send "GET //portal/server.pt?PT_HEALTH HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1\r\n"

 

}