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Stephen_Winter
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Jan 24, 2008

Setting UserAgent for Monitoring?

Hi All,     I'm not real familiar with the internal working of http, but I'm trying to setup a monitor on some web server to check for content and it's failing because the server checks Browser...
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hoolio
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Jan 24, 2008
Is this what you have now?

 

 

GET /path/to/file.ext HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11\r\nHost: myserver.mydomain.org\r\nConnection: close\r\n

 

 

If so, that should work. Can you check the server access log to see what's being parsed as the request?

 

 

Aaron