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Ionut_Turturic1's avatar
Ionut_Turturic1
Historic F5 Account
Mar 05, 2010

System.Services.set_service not working with HTTPD

Any idea why the System.Services.set_service has absolutely no effect with SERVICE_HTTPD ? No exception is thrown, no error messages in logs. It does work for mostly all other services! ...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Mar 05, 2010
I'm looking through the sources and it seems that any request for START, STOP, REINIT, AND RESTART for SERVICE_HTTPD is silently ignored. This should probably thrown an exception to let you know that it didn't work. I can understand the reasoning for disabling it though as a restart or reinit will break the current iControl request and the call will return a transport error.

 

 

In case you are interested, here's the code block with the developers comment

 

 

  
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < services.size(); i++)  
  {  
    // we will silently ignore request to start/stop/reinit/restart httpd  
    // since that would be BAD !  
    if (services[ i ] == System::Services::SERVICE_HTTPD &&  
      (action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_START  ||  
       action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_STOP   ||  
       action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_REINIT ||  
       action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_RESTART))  
    {  
      continue;  
    }  
    ...  
  }

 

 

I guess the "since that would be BAD !" is the fact that it will break the current iControl request B-).

 

 

-Joe