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Nik's avatar
Nik
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Feb 23, 2015

spaces in http monitor recieve string?

I have an http monitor with the recieve string of "TEST BLAH" (without quotes) - this will fail. If I change the receive string to "TEST" or "BLAH" it will succeed. I've tried these other patterns ...
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Nik's avatar
Nik
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Feb 23, 2015

The text is in the http body and I copied it, like you said. There may be something in the body that's causing it to be escaped.. or maybe there's a max length that can be searched by a monitor? I'm testing different chunks of the source now to find where it dies.

 

  • shaggy's avatar
    shaggy
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    Feb 23, 2015
    5,120 bytes - https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/400/sol3451.html
  • Nik's avatar
    Nik
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    Feb 23, 2015
    There we go, the string i was querying for was on the bottom of the page, well after the 5k byte limit. Thanks for finding this information for me.
  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
    Icon for Cirrocumulus rankCirrocumulus
    Feb 24, 2015
    Glad you're sorted. Good one Shaggy!