LTM: HTTP Monitoring with POST Request

I recently discovered that you can use LTM's built in HTTP monitor template to send a POST request to a server to verify its health. It's surprisingly straightforward in comparison with the external ...
Published Mar 11, 2008
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Jun 10, 2008
As described in CR97857, the monitoring daemon, bigd, appends one or more extraneous CRLF's to the TCP, HTTP and HTTPS monitor send string. As RFC2616 states there should be no CRLF following the POST body, using an HTTP or HTTPS monitor with a POST request will result in a request which the server *may not* see as valid. In that case, you'd need to use an external monitor.

 

 

If this is something you'd like to see fixed, you can contact F5 support and request your case be attached to the CR.

 

 

Aaron