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Brian_Gibson_30
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May 15, 2014

Receive string not matching on request

I am fairly new to doing HTTP requests. My company doesn't do a lot of http specific stuff on the LBs. Anyway I'm trying to do a basic http monitor and I can't seem to get the receive to match. H...
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Change your monitor Blah send string to this (replace host.domain.com with the actual host name):

GET /BCCommunicationDirector/Blah.ashx HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: host.domain.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

You need to specify a host header in your send string to comply with HTTP/1.1.

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Brian_Gibson_30
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May 15, 2014
Thanks Cory. I don't have an actual host name to for this specific service. Is there a way to use the node IP address in the check?